Nginx Ingress rewrite target with additional subpaths

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Cluster information:

Kubernetes version: 1.20
Installation method: Helm chart
Nginx image: k8s.gcr.io/ingress-nginx/controller:v0.45.0

I have an ingress that requires a sub-path to be explicitly declared, or the websocket it is used for won’t work internally. I have it set up like this when using the “root” path “/” for the general server and “/socket.io/” giving access to the websocket.

MWE

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: my-server
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
spec:
  rules:
  - http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: my-server
            port:
              number: 5000
      - path: /socket.io/.*
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: my-server
            port:
              number: 5000

I would now like to deploy this on a sub-path for testing purposes but when I add rewrite-target things break for the websocket.

Non-working example

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: my-server
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
spec:
  rules:
  - http:
      paths:
      - path: testing(/|$)(.*)
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: my-server
            port:
              number: 5000
      - path: /testing/socket.io(/|$)(.*) # <--- This is what breaks
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: my-server
            port:
              number: 5000

The general path forwarding from “http://my-ip/testing” → “/” in the deployment is working fine but I can’t seem to get the websocket setup so that “my-ip/testing/socket.io/.*” → “/socket.io/.*” on the deployment properly.
How do I set this up with the (/|$) and (.*) in the path to achieve this?
Is there a different way I can do this?

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I have solved this in a different way, would still be interested to know if there is an ingress only solution.

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Hey Kerry, I am dealing with the same issue right now.
Would you share your solution with us/me? It would be very appreciated.
Thank you a lot!

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Hi all,

I have also issue with websocket. If you have any solution or blog then please share with me

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You forgot to add the “use-regex” annotation, as it is described in the documentation for the ingress rewrite

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: “true”
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2

In addition, I had to change the pathType from “Prefix” to “ImplementationSpecific” - again, the way it is in the example of the rewrite documentation.