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Adam
Asked: 2014-10-22 06:34:11 +0800 CST

Nginx - Separate location for /

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I'd like to use nginx to have one location used for just the root url (https://example.com/) and serve all other file from a different location. Eventually I want to use this to do authentication on / before proxying, but initially I'm just trying with simple file locations.

Based on the documentation I'm using two location blocks:

server {
  listen  443 ssl;
  ssl_certificate      /etc/nginx/cert.pem;
  ssl_certificate_key  /etc/nginx/cert.key;

  location = / {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html;
  }

  location / {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html2;
  }
}

But requests for https:// example.com/ are getting /usr/share/nginx/html2/index.html rather than /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

Similarly, I've tried:

  location = / {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html;
  }

  location ~* ^/.* {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html2;
  }

But I get the same result.

Is there a straightforward way to get this to work?

nginx

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    That's because the index directive will make an internal redirect to /index.html thus it's matching the second location block. Change the first block to this :

    location ~ ^/(index\.html)?$ {
    root /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index index.html;
}
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