This is a project drived with WDJ-Generator Development Setup location /needle { rewrite ^/needle/(.*)$ /$1 break; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1338/; }