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BigHandsome
BigHandsome

Reputation: 5403

NGINX not following alias directive

I am trying to get nginx to server some static files. I put in what I believe should be the proper directive to alias the url, but nginx is refusing to server the page. My server.conf is as follows:

server {

        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;

        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;

        # Make site accessible from server.fqdn.suffix
        server_name server.fqdn.suffix;

        location /static/ {
            autoindex on;
            alias /usr/share/nginx/html/poindexter/inspire/static/;
        }

        # Include the basic h5bp config set
        include /etc/nginx/h5bp/basic.conf;
}

I assumed that this would redirect to the /usr/share/nginx/html/poindexter/inspire/static/ directory. And for the autoindex it seems to work. But when you click on a file it generates a 404 error. I took an strace and sure enough, it is not honoring the alias. 

[pid  2542] <... epoll_wait resumed> {{EPOLLIN, {u32=1822502928, u64=139901792235536}}}, 512, 4294967295) = 1
[pid  2542] accept4(10, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(37845), sin_addr=inet_addr("198.55.232.86")}, [16], SOCK_NONBLOCK) = 24
[pid  2542] epoll_ctl(21, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 24, {EPOLLIN|EPOLLET, {u32=1822503697, u64=139901792236305}}) = 0
[pid  2542] epoll_wait(21, {{EPOLLIN, {u32=1822503697, u64=139901792236305}}}, 512, 10000) = 1
[pid  2542] recvfrom(24, "GET /static/css/bootstrap.min.cs"..., 1024, 0, NULL, NULL) = 772
[pid  2542] open("/usr/share/nginx/html/static/css/bootstrap.min.css", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
[pid  2542] write(8, "2014/03/05 21:59:23 [error] 2542"..., 328) = 328
[pid  2542] writev(24, [{"HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found\r\nServer: "..., 172}, {"<html>\r\n<head><title>404 Not Fou"..., 116}, {"<hr><center>nginx</center>\r\n</bo"..., 46}], 3) = 334
[pid  2542] setsockopt(24, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
[pid  2542] recvfrom(24, 0x14e9240, 1024, 0, 0, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable

I would really appreciate any help I could get. I am very stuck.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1310

Answers (1)

Alexey Ten
Alexey Ten

Reputation: 14372

I see several way to fix this.

1

Just add symlink from /usr/share/nginx/html/static/ to /usr/share/nginx/html/poindexter/inspire/static/ and remove alias directive. It something like aliasing on file system level.

location /static/ {
    autoindex on;
}

2

Remove location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ { block.

3

Use rewrite (this solution make use the fact you static directory in inside your root)

location ^~ /static/ {
    autoindex on;
    rewrite ^(.+)$ /poindexter/inspire$1;
}

Upvotes: 2

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