Nginx multiple roots

httpnginxredirectrewriterules

I'd like to divert off requests to a particular sub-directory, to another root location. How? My existing block is:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.domain.com;

    location / {
        root   /home/me/Documents/site1;
        index  index.html;
    }

    location /petproject {
        root   /home/me/pet-Project/website;
        index  index.html;
        rewrite ^/petproject(.*)$ /$1;
    }

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    } }

That is, http://www.domain.com should serve /home/me/Documents/site1/index.html whereas http://www.domain.com/petproject should serve /home/me/pet-Project/website/index.html — it seems that nginx re-runs all the rules after the replacement, and http://www.domain.com/petproject just serves /home/me/Documents/site1/index.html .

Best Answer

The configuration has the usual problem that generally happens with nginx. That is, using root directive inside location block.

Try using this configuration instead of your current location blocks:

root /home/me/Documents/site1;
index index.html;

location /petproject {
    alias /home/me/pet-Project/website;
}

This means that the default directory for your website is /home/me/Documents/site1, and for /petproject URI, the content is served from /home/me/pet-Project/website directory.

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