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Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 5943

Nginx - static directory doesn't work

This works fine by accessing http://localhost

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

But why doesn't it work when I try to access http://localhost/test with this configuration?

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

Upvotes: 1

Views: 167

Answers (1)

Richard Smith
Richard Smith

Reputation: 49812

Use the alias directive:

location /test {
    alias /usr/share/nginx/html;
    index  index.html index.htm;
}

With the root directive, the value of the root and the URI are appended together to obtain the path to the file.

With the alias directive, the value of the location is removed from the URI first, so /test/index.html will be mapped to /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html.

See this document for details.

Upvotes: 1

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