# ExternalName backed paths Drop Path

**URL:** <https://community.traefik.io/t/externalname-backed-paths-drop-path/7295>\
**Category:** Traefik v2\
**Tags:** kubernetes-ingress\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/externalname-backed-paths-drop-path/7295 "2020-08-14T05:02:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 14, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/externalname-backed-paths-drop-path/7295/1 "2020-08-14T05:02:04Z")

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When trying to use traefik as a reverse proxy for external services, it only proxies to the host directly and ignores the path and only sends the host itself. Does anyone have any idea why this is not passing the path?  
Ingress:

```yaml
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.entrypoints: websecure
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.priority: "10"
    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.tls: "true"
  name: domain-tld
spec:
  rules:
    - host: domain.tld
      http:
        paths:
          - backend:
              serviceName: public-external-name
              servicePort: 443
            path: /path
  tls:
    - hosts:
        - domain.tld
      secretName: domain-tld

```

ExternalName:

```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: public-external-name
spec:
  type: ExternalName
  externalName: mypagesrepo.github.io
  ports:
    - port: 443

```

Log of failure:

```json
{"ClientAddr":"10.120.0.3:38798","ClientHost":"10.120.0.3","ClientPort":"38798","ClientUsername":"-","DownstreamContentSize":5142,"DownstreamStatus":404,"Duration":18464933,"OriginContentSize":5142,"OriginDuration":18342096,"OriginStatus":404,"Overhead":122837,"RequestAddr":"domain.tld","RequestContentSize":0,"RequestCount":156112,"RequestHost":"domain.tld","RequestMethod":"GET","RequestPath":"/path/","RequestPort":"-","RequestProtocol":"HTTP/2.0","RequestScheme":"https","RetryAttempts":0,"ServiceAddr":"mypagesrepo.github.io:443","ServiceName":"namespace-public-external-name-443@kubernetes","ServiceURL":{"Scheme":"https","Opaque":"","User":null,"Host":"domain.tld:443","Path":"","RawPath":"","ForceQuery":false,"RawQuery":"","Fragment":""},"StartLocal":"2020-08-14T04:55:55.126388322Z","StartUTC":"2020-08-14T04:55:55.126388322Z","entryPointName":"websecure","level":"info","msg":"","time":"2020-08-14T04:55:55Z"}

```