I'm totally new to nginx. I want to forward two subdomains to the two applications in my apache tomcat server. As I searched over internet, I found that rewrite does the forwarding but I cannot see forwarding. Here is my server configuration server { listen 80; server_name subdomain1.domain.com; rewrite ^ http://tomcat.ip:8080/app1$request_uri? permanent; } server { listen 80; server_name subdomain2.domain.com; rewrite ^ http://tomcat.ip:8080/app2$request_uri? permanent; } Whenever I invoke subdomain1.domain.com or subdomain2.domain.com, I'm redirected to the main page of nginx which states that nginx is successfully installed and further configuration is needed. So, How can I do the forwarding?