I have an nodejs application running on kubernetes and the url is https://example.com. The same application also serves '/api'. My requirement is when I hit https://example.com, in the background it should hit https://example.com/api but in frontend, it should show https://example.com only.

I have already tried with below configuration of nginx ingress using nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /api but it doesnt work.

apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: nginx
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /api
  name: test
  namespace: test
spec:
  rules:
  - host: example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - backend:
          serviceName: test
          servicePort: 8080