I have 2 servers: server-1 and server-2, and they both have nginx 1.16 installed on them.
On the server-1 nginx.conf I configured:

listen 80;
location / {
    mirror /mirror;
    proxy_pass http://server-1:8080;
}

location /mirror {
    proxy_pass http://server-2:80;
}

And on the server-2 nginx.conf I configured:

listen 80;

location / {

    proxy_pass http://server-2:8080;

}

Now, When Im sending a request to server-1 Im expecting it to be forwarded with the correct path to server-2, but for some reason it sends the request but not with the correct path, but with the path /mirror.

I searched online and find this thread:
Nginx mirror not forwarding to mirror link
When they said Im “have to add the $request_uri to the proxy_pass to send the full URI to the second, mirrored backend.”

So I did, now my server-1 nginx.conf is:

listen 80;
location / {
    mirror /mirror;
    proxy_pass http://server-1:8080;
}

location /mirror {
    proxy_pass http://server-2:80$request_uri;
}

And now, when I check server-2 logs, Im not getting any logs…

Where am I going wrong here?