<p>I facing a problem in an ingress controller nginx kubernetes that is deployed in minikube :
when i included the route that nginx will use to redirect the request it didn't work , however when i remove the route it work :
So , as is explained in yaml file when i use /category it didn't work , however with with just / it is working </p>

<pre><code>---- load balancer ---
    apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
    kind: Ingress
    metadata:
      name: spare-ingress-dev
      namespace: default
      annotations:
        kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
        nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /
    spec:
      rules:
         - http:
            paths:
              - path: /
                backend:
                  serviceName: cluster-test-ip
                  servicePort: 80
              - path: /category/
                backend:
                  serviceName: cluster-category-ip
                  servicePort: 5200

----service-----

    apiVersion: v1
    kind: Service
    metadata:
      name: cluster-category-ip
    spec:
      selector:
        app: category
      ports:
        - port: 5200
          targetPort: 5200
</code></pre>

Hasni Mehdi
<pre><code>apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: spare-ingress-dev
  namespace: default
  annotations:
     kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
     nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/app-root: /
spec:
 rules:
  - host: cluster.io
    http:
       paths:
        - path: /api/v1.0/auth/(.+)
          backend:
            serviceName: cluster-auth-ip
            servicePort: 6000
        - path: /api/v1.0/category/(.+)
          backend:
            serviceName: cluster-category-ip
            servicePort: 5200
        - path: /category/(.+)
          backend:
            serviceName: cluster-category-ip
            servicePort: 5200
</code></pre>

<p>i found the solution 
i removed <code>nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: $1</code> 
and i added </p>

<pre><code>kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/use-regex: "true"
nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/app-root: /
</code></pre>
