Zuul Reverse Proxy Language Understanding

Question

I am playing around with Zuul but there seems to be something fundamental I don't understand.

Per the documentation (http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/spring-cloud-netflix.html), The following Zuul configuration should cause all http calls to "/myusers" to be forwarded to the "users" service.

zuul:
  routes:
      users: /myusers/**

I have a similar scenario but it simply doesn't work. My configuration is:

zuul:
   route:
       stores: /california/**

The service Id is "stores" and it has a URL called "/hello". When I hit:

 http://localhost:8765/california/hello, 

I get the Spring Boot 404 error message. However, things work very well if I replace california with stores, resulting in the following configuration:

zuul:
   route:
       stores: /stores/**

In this case, if I call

 http://localhost:8765/stores/hello, 

Things work just fine. So, it looks as if the prefix of the URL has to match the ID of the service. Is that the expected behavior? What am I missing?

I am using the Zuul 1.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. On a aisde note, I did notice that the discovery client is now built in into Zuul. Is there a way to disable it if I don't want to run Eureka?

Answer 1

Oh my goodness, it should of course be

zuul:
   routes:

instead of

zuul:
   route: