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ekscrypto
ekscrypto

Reputation: 3816

Need help in using a different root for a location in NGINX

I have a site configuration pointing to /var/www for a domain (https://somedomain.com/) but I want a location /clientfolder to be redirected to /home/clientfolder/website/

My issue is whenever a request comes in, such as https://somedomain.com/clientfolder/index.html the daemon is looking for a file at /home/clientfolder/website/clientfolder/index.html

So I tried to use the rewrite directive:

location /clientfolder {
    rewrite ^/clientfolder/(.*)$ /$1 last;
    root /home/clientfolder/website
}

But now https://somedomain.com/clientfolder/index.html loads the file at /var/www/index.html

Is there another directive than rewrite that would allow me to strip the "clientfolder" from the file path if the /clientfolder location was matched?

Update: I managed to get this to work, but it feels totally wrong:

location /clientfolder/website {
    root /home;
}
location /clientfolder {
    rewrite ^/clientfolder/(.*)$ /clientfolder/website/$1;
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 35

Answers (1)

Richard Smith
Richard Smith

Reputation: 49752

If URIs beginning with /clientfolder are located in /home/clientfolder/website, you should use an alias directive.

For example:

location /clientfolder {
    alias /home/clientfolder/website;
}

See this document for details.

Upvotes: 1

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