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?