# Nginx reverse proxy with rewrite and app/kibana#/discover
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** docker
**Created:** [September 6, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461 "2019-09-06T17:36:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@tlacuache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tlacuache)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461/1 "2019-09-06T17:36:06Z")
I've got Kibana running in docker-compose with nginx as a reverse proxy. It's working great, generally. Here are the relevant peices:
```
upstream docker-kibana {
server kibana:5601;
}
...
location /kibana {
proxy_pass http://docker-kibana;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host kibana.malcolm.local;
}
```
Also, I have this in my kibana.yml:
```
server.basePath: "/kibana"
server.rewriteBasePath: true
```
So basically everything is fine, there, I go to `https://localhost/kibana` and I am redirected to `https://localhost/kibana/app/kibana` and my default dashboards, etc.
I'm trying to make a rule that takes a specific URL from another part of my project and rewrite it to open up that particular document in the Discover app. The URL looks like this: `https://localhost/idmol2kib/_id=190906-zRrtl-PKhhJO7ILAEOLwN80W`
So, the idea is that I would end up with that being rewritten to Kibana like this: `https://localhost/kibana/app/kibana#/discover?_g=()&_a=(columns:!(_source),filters:!((meta:(alias:!n,disabled:!f,index:'sessions2-*',key:_id,negate:!f,params:(query:'190906-zRrtl-PKhhJO7ILAEOLwN80W',type:phrase),type:phrase,value:'190906-zRrtl-PKhhJO7ILAEOLwN80W'),query:(match:(_id:(query:'190906-zRrtl-PKhhJO7ILAEOLwN80W',type:phrase))))),index:'sessions2-*',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:''),sort:!(firstPacket,desc))`
I'm trying to get my new `location` rule added in. My rule of thumb is always start simple, then work up from there. So, I did this first (basically just take me to Kibana, no additional parameters):
```
location ~* ^/idmol2kib\b(.*) {
rewrite ^/idmol2kib(.*) /kibana/app/kibana;
proxy_pass http://docker-kibana;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host kibana.malcolm.local;
}
```
And, that works perfectly. The link `https://localhost/idmol2kib/_id=190906-zRrtl-PKhhJO7ILAEOLwN80W` actually takes me to `https://localhost/kibana/app/kibana` which loads up my default dashboard.
But, that's not what I really want, I want to go to the `#discover` page. Again, let's not get too complicated. I'm going to just change my working config and add the discover bit in (eg., to get me to `https://localhost/kibana/app/kibana#/discover`):
```
location ~* ^/idmol2kib\b(.*) {
rewrite ^/idmol2kib(.*) /kibana/app/kibana#/discover;
proxy_pass http://docker-kibana;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host kibana.malcolm.local;
}
```
However, it doesn't work. I end up with this:
`{"statusCode":404,"error":"Not Found","message":"Not Found"}`
Looking at my logs, I see:
```
nginx-proxy_1 | nginx.1 | 192.168.160.1 - seth [06/Sep/2019:17:32:36 +0000] "GET /idmol2kib/_id=190906-WSB9hsThC1VHH5StaJttzpDd HTTP/1.1" 404 60 "https://localhost/sessions?graphType=lpHisto&seriesType=bars" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36"
kibana_1 | {"type":"response","@timestamp":"2019-09-06T17:32:36Z","tags":[],"pid":83,"method":"get","statusCode":404,"req":{"url":"/app/kibana%23/discover","method":"get","headers":{"host":"kibana.malcolm.local","connection":"close","upgrade-insecure-requests":"1","user-agent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.100 Safari/537.36","sec-fetch-mode":"navigate","sec-fetch-user":"?1","accept":"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3","sec-fetch-site":"same-origin","referer":"https://localhost/sessions?graphType=lpHisto&seriesType=bars","accept-encoding":"gzip, deflate, br","accept-language":"en-US,en;q=0.9"},"remoteAddress":"192.168.160.12","userAgent":"192.168.160.12","referer":"https://localhost/sessions?graphType=lpHisto&seriesType=bars"},"res":{"statusCode":404,"responseTime":1,"contentLength":9},"message":"GET /app/kibana%23/discover 404 1ms - 9.0B"}
```
Basically, we see Kibana is seeing `"url":"/app/kibana%23/discover"` and giving a 404. I tried doing the encoding of the `#` to `%23` myself, but then Kibana just sees `"url":"/app/kibana%2523/discover"` and the same 404. Escaping the `#` with a `\` in nginx.conf doesn't work either.
So it boils down to that `#`. I can't get nginx to pass the `#` to Kibana in the URL in a way it wants. Any tips?
---
### Author:  [@tlacuache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tlacuache)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2019, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461/2 "2019-09-06T18:22:27Z")
I should mention, I am running Kibana 6.8.2.
---
### Author:  [@bhavyarm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bhavyarm)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461/3 "2019-09-17T20:52:24Z")
@Bargs can we get some help here please?
Thanks,
Bhavya
---
### Author:  [@tlacuache](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tlacuache)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461/5 "2019-09-25T14:44:20Z")
Actually, I think I've figured it out!
The issue is that the fragment identifier portion of the URL (after the #) is only usable by the browser, not the server itself.
So I had to add `redirect` after the nginx `rewrite` directive to indicate that this is a web browser redirect (302).
The working block looks like this:
```
# Kibana shortcut
location ~* ^/idmol2kib(.*) {
rewrite ^/idmol2kib/(.*?)=(.*) /kibana/app/kibana#/discover?_g=()&_a=(columns:!(_source),filters:!((meta:(alias:!n,disabled:!f,index:'sessions2-*',key:$1,negate:!f,params:(query:'$2',type:phrase),type:phrase,value:'$2'),query:(match:($1:(query:'$2',type:phrase))))),index:'sessions2-*',interval:auto,query:(language:lucene,query:''),sort:!(firstPacket,desc)) redirect;
proxy_pass http://docker-kibana;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header Host kibana.malcolm.local;
}
```
And it seems to work like a champ. Hopefully this will help someone else who is trying to do this someday.
---
### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nginx-reverse-proxy-with-rewrite-and-app-kibana-discover/198461/6 "2019-10-23T14:44:21Z")
This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.