diff --git a/backend/src/api/bitcoin/esplora-api.ts b/backend/src/api/bitcoin/esplora-api.ts
index 368ff1978..90da93d7e 100644
--- a/backend/src/api/bitcoin/esplora-api.ts
+++ b/backend/src/api/bitcoin/esplora-api.ts
@@ -214,11 +214,11 @@ class ElectrsApi implements AbstractBitcoinApi {
   }
 
   async $getMempoolTransactions(txids: string[]): Promise<IEsploraApi.Transaction[]> {
-    return this.failoverRouter.$post<IEsploraApi.Transaction[]>('/internal-api/mempool/txs', txids, 'json');
+    return this.failoverRouter.$post<IEsploraApi.Transaction[]>('/internal/mempool/txs', txids, 'json');
   }
 
   async $getAllMempoolTransactions(lastSeenTxid?: string): Promise<IEsploraApi.Transaction[]> {
-    return this.failoverRouter.$get<IEsploraApi.Transaction[]>('/internal-api/mempool/txs' + (lastSeenTxid ? '/' + lastSeenTxid : ''));
+    return this.failoverRouter.$get<IEsploraApi.Transaction[]>('/internal/mempool/txs' + (lastSeenTxid ? '/' + lastSeenTxid : ''));
   }
 
   $getTransactionHex(txId: string): Promise<string> {
diff --git a/nginx-mempool.conf b/nginx-mempool.conf
index bc8efc59e..67cb15939 100644
--- a/nginx-mempool.conf
+++ b/nginx-mempool.conf
@@ -39,11 +39,6 @@
 		try_files $uri $uri/ /$1/index.html =404;
 	}
 
-	# any path containing .*/internal-api/.* anywhere is ignored
-	location ~ ^/.*?/internal-api/ {
-		return 404;
-	}
-
 	# static API docs
 	location = /api {
 		try_files $uri $uri/ /en-US/index.html =404;
diff --git a/production/nginx/location-api.conf b/production/nginx/location-api.conf
index dba798719..333877630 100644
--- a/production/nginx/location-api.conf
+++ b/production/nginx/location-api.conf
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 # mempool #
 ###########
 
-# any path containing .*/internal-api/.* anywhere is ignored
-location ~ ^/.*?/internal-api/ {
+location /api/internal/ {
+	return 404;
+}
+location /api/v1/internal/ {
 	return 404;
 }
-
 # websocket has special HTTP headers
 location /api/v1/ws {
 	try_files /dev/null @mempool-api-v1-websocket;