Keep getting 404

[royzinn]

Hi and thanks for sharing this gem.
I have followed the instructions, trying to make my site weski.co.il/blog to reverse-proxy our WP which is hosted on different url.
my current controller action looks like this:

reverse_proxy "http://roy.zebra-media.co.il/", path: params[:path] ,username: 'xxx', password: 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' do |config|
  config.on_missing do |code, response|
    redirect_to root_path and return
  end
end

It keeps redirecting me to root_path no matter what valid blog path I provide it.
Any ideas what can it be?

Thanks!

[bapirex]

@royzinn
If you look in the code, the on_missing callback checks the HTTP Status code returned.

      when 400..499
        callbacks[:on_missing].call(payload)

The thing is that, this captures everything under the sun from a bad request to an actual 404. It might be worth checking the response headers by performing a curl request with the -I flag and report back.

[royzinn]

@bapirex - thanks for the quick response.
Before trying this gem, I used https://github.com/waterlink/rack-reverse-proxy which does reverse proxy but didn't allow me to set the headers, but the code is almost the same. I have initialized it with the same params and it works fine.
Not sure how curl will help here. can u please explain how you would use curl in this particular case (I guess just curl the url with params will work just fine as it works now (weski.co.il/blog/ is currently reverse-proxying using the above gem)

[axsuul]

Can you let us know what code is here?

reverse_proxy "http://roy.zebra-media.co.il/", path: params[:path] ,username: 'xxx', password: 'xxxxxxxxxxxx' do |config|
  config.on_missing do |code, response|
    # code?
    redirect_to root_path and return
  end
end

[royzinn]

@axsuul - didn't put any code there except for byebug to try and understand what's going on there

[axsuul]

@royzinn Sorry, I meant can you give us the value for code variable?

[axsuul]

@royzinn Any updates on this?

[royzinn]

Hi @axsuul,
Sorry for the delayed response, I somehow missed the latest discussion.
The code is 402. The strange part is that I don't see any request goes "out" it looks like the response immediately replied,
Maybe I missed something in the configuration although I followed the instructions.

[axsuul]

Hmm that's quite an odd code. 402 is Payment Required? Do you know why it could be returning this type of code?

[royzinn]

sorry, my mistake, it is 404...autocomplete :-)

[axsuul]

Sorry want to get to the bottom of this. Could it be that you're passing a bad argument to path? What is params[:path] for you?

[royzinn]

I have params[:path] = what-makes-val-thorens-so-special
so, to make everything clear, I'm trying my app url to reverse proxy to http://roy.zebra-media.co.il so that:
localhost:3000/blog/ will fetch http://roy.zebra-media.co.il/
and
localhost:300/blog/val-thorens-activities-and-things-to-do will fetch http://roy.zebra-media.co.il/val-thorens-activities-and-things-to-do

Thanks for looking into this :-)

[axsuul]

May have found the issue. So how this gem works is it's trying to make a TCP request to

http://roy.zebra-media.co.il/val-thorens-activities-and-things-to-do:80

Notice the :80. When trying to access this URL with the port, it gives a 404. Are you able to make it so that the :80 URL also works?

[royzinn]

Hi @axsuul - thanks for looking into the issue.
unfortunately, I'm not sure I can deal with it now as it's on low priority and i'm in the process of bootstrapping the company.
I know it's not fair that i'm not contributing further to the effort you put in this gem (which is highly appreciated) but it might take me a while.
I would love to come back at it later on and update you with the results.
Thanks much,
Roy

[axsuul]

No worries @royzinn. Hope you don't mind me closing this for the time being. Feel free to open it in the future when you come back to it. Thanks! 👍