webpack-dev-server proxy dosen't work

I want to proxy /v1/** to http://myserver.com, and here is my devServer configration,

 devServer: {
        historyApiFallBack: true,
        // progress: true,
        hot: true,
        inline: true,
        // https: true,
        // port: 8081,
        contentBase: path.resolve(__dirname,'public'),
        proxy: {
            '/v1/**': {
                target: 'http://api.in.uprintf.com/',
                secure: false
                // changeOrigin: true
            }
        }
    },

but it results in 404 not found error, and here is the response,

Request URL:http://localhost:8080/v1/address/school?keyword=scut&_=1460968888999
Request Method:GET
Status Code:404 Not Found
Remote Address:127.0.0.1:8080
Response Headers
view source
connection:close
content-encoding:gzip
content-type:text/html
date:Mon, 18 Apr 2016 08:41:34 GMT
server:nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
transfer-encoding:chunked
X-Powered-By:Express

It seems to proxy to my ubuntu nginx server, since i use mac os locally， but i don’t use express in my remote server.

[Authorlove]

when i set proxy option: changeOrigin: true, it works. From the node-http-proxy’s document, it says,
‘changeOrigin: true/false, Default: false - changes the origin of the host header to the target URL’. Does the changeOrigin option depend on the remote backend server framework?

[bivvo]

@pgangwani Try this. Was able to get this to run.

proxy:{
      '/api/*' : {
        target: 'http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/', 
        changeOrigin: true,
        pathRewrite: {
        '^/api': ''
        }
      }
    }