Mastering NGINX - Second Edition

Legacy servers with cookies

You may find yourself in a situation where you will need to place multiple legacy applications behind one common endpoint. The legacy applications were written for a case where they were the only servers talking directly with the client. They set cookies from their own domain, and assumed that they would always be reachable via the / URI. In placing a new endpoint in front of these servers, these assumptions no longer hold true. The following configuration will rewrite the cookie domain and path to match that of the new application endpoint:

server { server_name app.example.com; location /legacy1 { proxy_cookie_domain legacy1.example.com app.example.com; proxy_cookie_path $uri /legacy1$uri; proxy_redirect default; proxy_pass ...