Another nginx ingress rewrite-target problem - node.js

Question

I have one service and a single ingress resource with kubenetes nginx ingress controller. I want the /student path of my url to go to the root of the application and match any other url segments which follow the student.
For example: http://example.com/student/ver should match the /ver route of my application.
However, my ingress always hit the application with the /student url path prefixing the other url segments. If I call http://example.com/student/ver, my application is hit with the same url (student/ver).
My ingress:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
name: ingress-resource
spec:
rules:
- host: example.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: lesson-streaming
servicePort: 80
path: /student
I spent days with this and was not successful once.
Edit:
The ingress is changed to the following - not my requests say http 404
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "false"
name: ingress-resource
namespace: default
spec:
rules:
- host: example.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: lesson-streaming
servicePort: 80
path: /student(/|$)(.*)

Answer 1

You can follow the link to use the rewrite-target annotation correctly and keep the right key nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target.
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
annotations:
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2
name: rewrite
namespace: default
spec:
rules:
- host: rewrite.bar.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
serviceName: http-svc
servicePort: 80
path: /something(/|$)(.*)

Answer 2

Im using k8 - v1.25.2 along with nginx-Ingress v2.4.1 https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-ingress-controller/installation/installation-with-manifests/
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$2 - doesnt work
instead use :
nginx.org/rewrites: "serviceName=app1-svc rewrite=/;serviceName=app2-svc rewrite=/"
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
name: path-ingress
namespace: default
annotations:
nginx.org/rewrites: "serviceName=app1-svc rewrite=/;serviceName=app2-svc rewrite=/"
spec:
ingressClassName: nginx
rules:
- host: apps.relo.com
http:
paths:
- backend:
service:
name: app1-svc
port:
number: 2041
path: /app1
pathType: Prefix
- backend:
service:
name: app2-svc
port:
number: 2042
path: /app2
pathType: Prefix

Answer 3

I have tried many times to execute properly path based routing in nginx ingress controller but I have found the main reason behind the path based routing not working.
replace the (nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /) to (nginx.org/rewrites: "serviceName=servicename rewrite=/")
must add ingressClassName in spec
in my case
I have kubernetes 1.23.0 & nginx/1.21.6
I hope this will resolve the above problem.
Best of luck