http - Routing requests to multiple backend servers Dropwizard and Elasticsearch -

i have backend servers :

1. a dropwizard server serves application server. server used frontend operations except searching.
2. an elasticsearch server feeded dropwizard server serves frontend search queries.

knowing dropwizard running on port 8080 , elasticsearch on port 9200, there strategy have single frontend (nginx example or apache) can used route search request elasticsearch , non search request dropwizard (adding headers distinguish search request or using different path in url search request)?

i open suggestion or configuration,

thanks in advance,

nginx configurations

you can proxy them own ports:

server {   listen 8080;    location / {     proxy_pass http://dropwizard-host:8080/;   } }  server {   listen 9200;    location / {     proxy_pass http://elasticsearch-host:9200/;   } } 

or have them mapped same port different path:

server {   listen 80;    location /dropwizard {     proxy_pass http://dropwizard-host:8080/;   }    location /elasticsearch {     proxy_pass http://elasticsearch-host:9200/;   } }