Nginx location alias for theme files

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I'm trying to move my theme files outside of document root. I'm using nginx for the server and I've tried using alias and root directives in a location block. Nothing I've tried works and I suspect it's the try_files directive inside location /. I have my themes files in a folder at /var/www/naturesflowllc/ui/assets

Here is my nginx conf file.

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name my.beupnow.dev.kahunacoding.com;

    root /var/www/naturesflowllc/mybeupnow/public_html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri /index.php =404;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_pass php-upstream;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location /assets/ {
       alias /var/www/naturesflowllc/ui/assets/;
       # root /var/www/naturesflowllc/ui/;

       autoindex off;
       # autoindex on;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    error_log  /var/www/naturesflowllc/application/logs/my_beupnow_error.log debug;
    access_log /var/www/naturesflowllc/application/logs/my_beupnow_access.log;
    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
}

I've tried alias and root and autoindex on and off nothing seems to work.

EDIT:
So I want to have my assets served like this:

<link href="/assets/global/plugins/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

and this:

<script src="/assets/global/plugins/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

from my ui folder which is like this:

|____assets
| |____apps
| | |____css
| | | |____inbox.css
| | | |____inbox.min.css
| | | |____ticket.css
| | | |____ticket.min.css
| | | |____todo-2.css
| | | |____todo-2.min.css
| | | |____todo.css
| | | |____todo.min.css
| | |____img
| | |____scripts
| | | |____calendar.js
| | | |____calendar.min.js
| | | |____inbox.js
| | | |____inbox.min.js
| | | |____todo-2.js
| | | |____todo-2.min.js
| | | |____todo.js
| | | |____todo.min.js
| |____global
| | |____css
| | | |____components-md.css
| | | |____components-md.min.css
| | | |____components-rounded.css
| | | |____components-rounded.min.css
| | | |____components.css
| | | |____components.min.css
| | | |____plugins-md.css
| | | |____plugins-md.min.css
| | | |____plugins.css
| | | |____plugins.min.css
| | |____img
| | | |____accordion-plusminus.png
| | | |____ajax-loading.gif
| | | |____ajax-modal-loading.gif
| | | |____datatable-row-openclose.png
... (truncated)

I want to remove the assets folder from here /var/www/naturesflowllc/mybeupnow/public_html and relocate it to /var/www/naturesflowllc/ui/assets/

I hope this clarifies what I'm trying to achieve.

EDIT:
I wasted a couple of hours on this only to find out I was editing the wrong nginx.conf file 8-(. Works like it should with either root or alias.

Best Answer

https://nginx.ru/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#alias When location matches the last part of the directive’s value:

location /images/ {
    alias /data/w3/images/;
}

it is better to use the root directive instead:

location /images/ {
    root /data/w3;
}

It's your case.

I create an example for you and tried it at my ubuntu:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name 127.0.0.1;
        root /tmp/www/;

        # 1s location
        location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
        }

        # 2nd location
        location ~ \.php$ {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
        }

        #3d location
        location /assets/ {
        root /tmp/somedir/;
        }
}

http://127.0.0.1/ - "1st location (searching index file in /tmp/www), then 2nd location because where is no index file in my /tmp/www"

http://127.0.0.1/assets/some.js - "3d location (returns /tmp/somedir/assets/some.js)"

It works for me with nginx 1.10.3. If not for you, so please provide your nginx access and error logs.

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