Nginx – Serving static files in nginx using alias

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I have got the following location specified in nginx:

location ~ ^/blah/(.*)$ {
   alias /html/$1;
   autoindex on;
   allow all;
}

The html directory has the following structure:

/html/
   - other/
       - test2.htm
   - test.htm

I can browse to http://server/blah and get a file listing.

I can serve http://server/blah/other/test2.htm.

When I try to access http://server/blah/test.htm I get a 301 and a redirect to http://server/blah/test.htm/ and then a 404.

How can I serve the page at http://server/blah/test.htm?

Best Answer

Probably redirect happens somewhere else in the config, adding break should help to get what you need:

location ~ ^/blah/(.*)$ {
    alias /full/path/to_your/html/dir/$1;
    autoindex on;
    fancyindex on;
    allow all;
    break;
}

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I'm assuming your media files are in /home/boudewijn/www/bbt/brouwers/media. In which case the following should work.

If you still get a 404 error then check your error log as it should show you the exact file path it's trying to access.

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name mydomain.com;

    access_log /home/boudewijn/www/bbt/brouwers/logs/access.log;
    error_log /home/boudewijn/www/bbt/brouwers/logs/error.log warn;

    root    /home/boudewijn/www/bbt/brouwers/;

    try_files $uri @proxy;

    location @proxy {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
            include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
    }
}

Nginx – Trouble with nginx and serving from multiple directories under the same domain

The root directive is the problem here. Quote from the doc:

note: Keep in mind that the root will still append the directory to the request so that a request for "/i/top.gif" will not look in "/spool/w3/top.gif" like might happen in an Apache-like alias configuration where the location match itself is dropped. Use the alias directive to achieve the Apache-like functionality.

Basically, only use root for real roots: if the content is to be at / use root. If it's going to end on a subfolder, use alias:

location  /map/ {
  alias  /home/user/public_html/map/;
}

Also check what user nginx is running as and make sure that this user can access /home/user/public_html/map

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