I have an Nginx ingress controller virtualServre manifest as

apiVersion: k8s.nginx.org/v1
kind: VirtualServer
metadata:
  name: tea-vs
spec:
  host: apps.example.com
  routes:
  - path: /
    pathType: Prefix
    rewrite:
      path: /tea/
    route:
      path: /tea(.*)
      pathType: Prefix
      service:
        name: tea-svc
        port:
          number: 80

My app serves at /. When I type apps.example.com, it swagger UI loads and displays URL as apps.example.com/index.html

My requirement is:

1. if user enters apps.example.com/tea, the swagger UI should load even its serving at root.

2. My tea-svc should receive a request for apps.example.com but NOT apps.example.com/tea

3. Users still see the URL as apps.example.com/tea/index.html (or apps.example.com/index.html )

4. I prefer not to use Nginx Kind: Ingress

My dotnet code is below, and I don’t want to touch it as it’s already working in PROD. I am doing this as part of the migration to Nginx ingress controller and wanted to migrate to path based routing from the host based which I feel will bring some flexibility

 app.UseSwagger();

        app.UseSwaggerUI(c =>
        {
            c.SwaggerEndpoint("/swagger/v1/swagger.json", "V1");
            c.RoutePrefix = string.Empty;
        });

        app.UseRouting();

Struggling with this as I always get 404, when I attempt to do any path-based routing

Any help on this is highly appreciated