diff --git a/puppet/zulip/files/nginx/zulip-include-frontend/app b/puppet/zulip/files/nginx/zulip-include-frontend/app
index 4b7e76e13e..e7ff52ad0f 100644
--- a/puppet/zulip/files/nginx/zulip-include-frontend/app
+++ b/puppet/zulip/files/nginx/zulip-include-frontend/app
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ location /api/v1/events {
 }
 
 # Handle X-Accel-Redirect from Tornado to Tornado
-location ~ ^/tornado/(\d+)(/.*)$ {
+location ~ ^/internal/tornado/(\d+)(/.*)$ {
     internal;
     proxy_pass http://tornado$1$2$is_args$args;
     include /etc/nginx/zulip-include/proxy_longpolling;
diff --git a/zerver/tornado/views.py b/zerver/tornado/views.py
index 3f511bde20..2d96b3aa2f 100644
--- a/zerver/tornado/views.py
+++ b/zerver/tornado/views.py
@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ def get_events(request: HttpRequest, user_profile: UserProfile) -> HttpResponse:
         # which is efficient and keeps this redirect invisible to
         # clients.
         return HttpResponse(
-            "", headers={"X-Accel-Redirect": f"/tornado/{user_port}{request.get_full_path()}"}
+            "",
+            headers={"X-Accel-Redirect": f"/internal/tornado/{user_port}{request.get_full_path()}"},
         )
 
     return get_events_backend(request, user_profile)