Reverse Proxy Nginx

[manuel-schoebel]

Hi all,

I have a meteor application on that you can build a website in a website editor. The result would then be a website on the url:
http://my-meteor-app.com/websites/12345567

Of course you now want to have your own url like http://my-url.com and show the application behind the app-url.

As a proxy I use nginx and the config looks kinda like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name my-url.com;

    location / {
        proxy_pass http://my-meteor-app.com/websites/12345567;
        proxy_redirect off;
        ...
    }
}

This kinda works but the problem, I guess is, that the iron router would always render the route for "/" and not the route for "/websites/12345567" if you are on the site "http://my-url.com".

I thought about a dynamic action for the route for path "/" but it does not really seem like a nice solution ;)

Does anyone have an idea how to work around this?

[tedgoldstein]

Have you found a solution to this issue? I have it too.

[manuel-schoebel]

Since I only need the home route (path: "/") for this I do it in the action of the router, checking for the location.href and looking the necessary data up in the database.

It is not ideal but works for me.

[tmeasday]

@DerMambo you might be able to figure something out with connect handlers in 1.0?

[manuel-schoebel]

Haven't been able to look into this but this might be a good idea, thanks!

But another issue is the spiderable package for SEO since it depends on the static ROOT_URL. This also requires some workaround.

[bryankennedy]

I have this problem as well. There's some discussion about solutions and future designs over on these other issues: #848, #154