NGinx -> TorqueBox

gistfile1.txt

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 myhost jboss_server

NGINX:

server {
  listen myhost:80;
  server_name  myhost;
  location / {
    proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header        X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header        Host $http_host;
    proxy_pass http://rails1:8080;
  }
}

TEST

Starting JBoss:
$ $TORQUEBOX_HOME/jboss/run.sh -c web -b jboss_server

$ elinks http://jboss_server:8080 
returns error404, but it is fine because I removed root.war file

$ elinks http://rails1:8080 
works fine, it opens Ruby on Rails application

$ elinks http://myhost 
returns error404. 

It looks like Nginx has some issues with reverse proxy 
because the same rule for APACHE WORKS FINE.

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName myhost
    DocumentRoot /path/to/rails1/public
    ProxyPass / http://rails1:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse / http://rails1:8080/
</VirtualHost>

SOLUTION

To duplicate Apache behavior, Nginx need few additional HTTP headers:

server {
  listen myhost:80;
  server_name  myhost;
  location / {
    root /path/to/rails1/public;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; 
    proxy_pass http://rails1:8080;
  }
}

(It was also added to http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxLikeApache)