How to Update Kibana Dashboard URL from /app/kibana to /kibana/app/kibana

Elastic Stack Kibana
1

Hi,

We are having an issue while accessing Kibana Dashboard through Nginx reverse proxy.

When we add Location block "/" in Nginx.conf for kibana then we are able to access kibana dashboard through "root", in the backend its making all these calls.

/api
/app
/bundles
/elasticsearch
/kibana
/plugins
/ui

Kibana accessible only if we have just "/" in location block but it's not propery way to access kibana dashboard on Nginx proxy as a root.
so when we added location block seprately for each call, "/api, /app, /bundles, /kibana, /plugins, /ui, /elasticsearch....etc", then again it works, this is going to be big mess adding buch of location blocks in nginx.conf

Example:
Nginx.conf

    location / {

        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Connection "";

        set $proxy_pass http://<kibana url>:5601;
        proxy_pass http://<kibana url>:5601;

        proxy_intercept_errors on;
    }

Is there a way we can update Dashboard access instead of / to /kibana into kibana configuration so that we can add only one location block /kibana in Nginx.conf so that in the backend it will make all the calls adding /kibana in prefix?

/kibana/api
/kibana/app/kibana
/kibana/bundles
/kibana/elasticsearch
/kibana/kibana
/kibana/plugins
/kibana/ui

Please suggest me what will the recomended way to access kibana Dashboard through Nginx reverse proxy, Thanks.

2

You can place this in your kibana.yml:
server.basePath: /kibana
It will do what you are looking for I think. Then you can configure a /kibana block in your nginx config.

3

I have added server.basePath: /kibana variable into kibana.yml and restarted kibana service

also added location block in nginx with /kibana, when i hit nginx Proxy URL am not able to access dashboard and i see below log into nginx error.log file.

Below log is generating only when i hit directly nginx proxy URL without /kibana, if i add /kibana along with URL it's not logging anything in Nginx, attached screenshot of inspect section.

2019/01/10 20:36:52 [error] 17407#17407: *6711673 "/root/index.html" is forbidden (13: Permission denied)

kibana_dashboard
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Nginx Location block:

    location /kibana {

        
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Connection "";

        set $proxy_pass http://<kibana url>:5601;
        proxy_pass http://<kibana url>::5601;

        proxy_intercept_errors on;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
4

Not an nginx expert, but I think your proxy_pass directive is missing /kibana.

5

seems to be working with below location block, thanks for your help.

    location /kibana {

        rewrite ^/kibana/?(.*)$ /$1 break;
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Connection "";

        set $proxy_pass http://<kibana url>:5601;
        proxy_pass http://<kibana url>:5601;

        proxy_intercept_errors on;
        proxy_redirect off;
    }
6

Great, and thanks for posting your solution so someone else can learn from your experience.