SOLVED Adding custom configuration for / in NGINX

[gvard]

Hello,

We want to forward status.domain.tld (a cPanel account with that domain name is created) to domaintld.freshstatus.io in order to serve a status page from Freshstatus using a domain name with SSL. In their instructions at How can I host my Freshstatus status page on a custom domain? they have an NGINX directive.

The code we added is the following:

location / {
        proxy_set_header HOST $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

        proxy_pass https://domaintld.freshstatus.io;

    }

When the code is added on /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/USERNAME.conf replacing the current code for "location /" everything works like a charm, however that file gets ovewritten from cPanel periodically. At NGINX with Reverse Proxy | cPanel & WHM Documentation we see that we can use includes (in the main config file the line "include conf.d/users/USER/status.domain.tld/*.conf;" is already there), so we created /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/USERNAME/status.domain.tld/fresh.conf with the above contents.

-When we comment out the "location /" lines fron /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/USERNAME.conf and restart NGINX, the include file works, however when we do not comment them out, we get the following error while trying to start NGINX:

nginx: [emerg] duplicate location "/" in /etc/nginx/conf.d/users/USERNAME/status.domain.tld/fresh.conf:1


How can I add custom directive for / without editing the main file (to remove the existing entries) since it gets ovewritten by cPanel?

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! I did some homework on this and I wasn't able to get this to work either. I spoke with one of the developers on the webserver team and it seems you aren't able to override /. It might be best to do this in a different way, such as a 302 redirect to /status or something similar, as anything I tried on my end resulted in a similar error with the Nginx / warning.

 

[gvard]

Hi Rex,

Thank you for your help. Any ideas on how to make this work with a 302 redirect? Freshstatus allows only the use of a subdomain, not a directory of a subdomain.

 

[cPRex]

I spoke with our developers about this and they found that this worked well:

rewrite ^/$ http://www.domain.com/status redirect;

location /status {
        proxy_set_header HOST $host;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

        proxy_pass https://domaintld.freshstatus.io;

    }

although this is specifically for /status and not / itself. Could you try that and see if that works for your situation?

 

[gvard]

Hi Rex,

That rewrite rule in the beginning did the trick, thank you!

 

[cPRex]

I'm glad that helped!

 

[MarceloSoares]

Hi Rex,

That rewrite rule in the beginning did the trick, thank you!

Hey, gvard. I tried to do like you, but got no results. Could you show me how you did it?