# Traefik Ingress rewrite-target does not work **URL:** \ **Category:** Traefik v2\ **Tags:** kubernetes-ingress\ **Created:** [January 21, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127 "2022-01-21T09:12:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cawoodm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/cawoodm/32/617_2.png) [@cawoodm](https://community.traefik.io/u/cawoodm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:12am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/1 "2022-01-21T09:12:45Z")
Hello, As described [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70789020/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-nothing) and [here](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-with-k3s-rewrite-target-issue/12736) the annotation `***.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target` in Kubernetes Ingress seems to work fine with NGINX but not with traefik. Not sure if this is a Traefik or Kubernetes Issue but Traefik Ingress Controller is just ignoring `traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target`: ```yaml apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: registry-ingress namespace: ingress annotations: kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: / spec: rules: - host: myhost.com http: paths: - path: /overview pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: overview port: number: 8079 ``` Similarly with `path: /foo(.*)` and `traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target: /$1` no path rewriting is taking place and a 404 is returned. ---
**Author:** ![tommoulard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/tommoulard/32/2997_2.png) [@tommoulard](https://community.traefik.io/u/tommoulard)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 9:27am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/2 "2022-01-21T09:27:11Z")
Hello @cawoodm, Traefik does not support the `traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/rewrite-target` annotation. See the list of available annotations here: [Kubernetes Ingress - Traefik](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/routing/providers/kubernetes-ingress/#annotations) But your goal can be achieved using the [StipPrefix](https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/stripprefix/) middleware. ---
**Author:** ![cawoodm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/cawoodm/32/617_2.png) [@cawoodm](https://community.traefik.io/u/cawoodm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:19pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/3 "2022-01-21T13:19:35Z")
Thanks Tom, I looked into that and it seems I have to employ Middleware and Ingress Routers. Is there no way to configure or "talk to" traefik from an Ingress Resource? I guess I could create a Middleware but I don't see how to link it to my routing rules which are in an Ingress Resource `kind: Ingress`. ---
**Author:** ![tommoulard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/tommoulard/32/2997_2.png) [@tommoulard](https://community.traefik.io/u/tommoulard)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/4 "2022-01-21T13:28:24Z")
You have access to this annotation on Ingress: `traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.middlewares: my-stripprefix@kubernetescrd`. Hope it helps 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cawoodm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/cawoodm/32/617_2.png) [@cawoodm](https://community.traefik.io/u/cawoodm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/5 "2022-01-21T13:42:55Z")
> [@tommoulard](#): > > `traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.middlewares: my-stripprefix@kubernetescrd` . Unfortunately, as soon as I apply the annotation everything stops working and I just get 404s. ```auto │ 10.42.0.1 - - [21/Jan/2022:13:40:39 +0000] "GET /overview/ HTTP/2.0" 404 19 "-" "-" 23891 "-" "-" 0ms ``` Also I had to remove the `@kubernetescrd` part as traefik did not like it: ```auto time="2022-01-21T13:40:00Z" level=error msg="middleware \"mw-admin@kubernetescrd\" does not exist" entryPointName=web routerName= ``` ```auto --- # Middleware # Strip prefix /overview apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1 kind: Middleware metadata: name: mw-admin namespace: ingress spec: stripPrefix: forceSlash: false prefixes: - /overview --- # Ingress apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: registry-ingress namespace: ingress annotations: kubernetes.io/ingress.class: traefik traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.middlewares: mw-admin spec: tls: - hosts: - admin.mydomain.com secretName: tls-secret rules: - host: admin.mydomain.com http: paths: - path: /overview pathType: Prefix backend: service: name: overview port: number: 8079 ``` I tried with `forceSlash: false`, `forceSlash: true` and without this line. ---
**Author:** ![cawoodm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.traefik.io/cawoodm/32/617_2.png) [@cawoodm](https://community.traefik.io/u/cawoodm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/6 "2022-01-21T14:02:50Z")
OK, thanks to [this post](https://community.traefik.io/t/how-to-configure-middleware-with-kubernetes-ingress-middleware-xyz-does-not-exist/5016) I was able to solve it. The namespace must pre prefixed to the annotation and the @ suffix appended! `traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.middlewares: ingress-mw-admin@kubernetescrd` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/containo/original/2X/b/bd81ebdb578656e76e56ff3cc3eed021d3ba132d.png) [@system](https://community.traefik.io/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 8:30am UTC](https://community.traefik.io/t/traefik-ingress-rewrite-target-does-not-work/13127/7 "2022-03-18T08:30:19Z")
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