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Aaron Shen
Aaron Shen

Reputation: 8374

Why nginx not able to serve sites in different locations?

I want to use nginx to host some static html which is located in different path on my pc, below is my configuration:

server {
    listen       8080;
    server_name  localhost;


    location /chatserver {
        root /Users/xxxx/gitrepo/chatserver/public;
        index index.html;
    }

    location /test {
        root /Users/xxxx/test/test_site;
        index index.html;
    }

The file structure is:

Users
  |-xxxx
    |-gitrepo
    |  |-chatserver
    |       |-public
    |          |- index.html
    |-test
       |-test_site
            |- index.html

But when I access: http://localhost:8080/chatserver or http://localhost:8080/test, nginx always responds 404 Not Found.

If I access: http://localhost:8080/, nginx will return the default nginx welcome page.

Why is my configuration not working?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 58

Answers (1)

uzsolt
uzsolt

Reputation: 6027

I think you should use alias instead of root.

In your example the URL /chatserver/index.html will search the /Users/xxxx/gitrepo/chatserver/public/chatserver/index.html (note the "undesired" chatserver after public!). Check your nginx's logfiles!

See documentation of root and documentation of alias.

Upvotes: 2

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