I`ve beed using nxingx as a local balancer for few backend servers:

http { upstream mydomain.com { server 192.168.8.30; # backend server } server { listen 192.168.10.1:8080; server_name cmydomain.com;

location / { proxy_pass http://mydomain.com; proxy_redirect off; proxy_set_header Host $host; } } }

What I need to do is for a certain url to rewrite it to an external url but serve the requests as a proxy instead of returing a redirect, so this is transparent to the client:

http://mydomain.com/redirect/(.*)$ should go to http://extranal.comain.com/$1

I saw this is possible with a simple rewrite but it returns a redirect to the client. Is is possible to make nginx to server the rewrite as a proxy?