By cfcindia
I am trying to modify my drupal droplet nginx configuration to serve files from an another location.
/var/www/html/mysite <-- already configured and works fine and is accessible through the webserver
/var/www/html/resources <-- I want to configure the webserver to serve content from this directory
The modification I made in /etc/nginx/sites-available/drupal is not taking effect
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /var/www/html/mysite;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
.
.
.
location ~* ^/more/ {
root /var/www/html/resources;
index index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}
Still resources served from under the /resources is throwing 404 for e.g. http://cfcindia.org/resources/en/books/pdf/AGF.pdf
what is the nginx configuration changes to serve files from /resources?
I am an nginx newbie, and have researched existing community questions, and the internet, but could not get it to work. HELP!
Rabi
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Because of the way nginx handles the root directive, it would try to serve /var/www/html/resources/more/en/books/pdf/AGF.pdf when you browsed to http://cfcindia.org/more/en/books/pdf/AGF.pdf. Replace it with alias and you should be good to go:
location /more {
alias /var/www/html/resources;
index index.html index.htm;
}
Don’t forget to restart nginx so that the changes take effect:
sudo service nginx restart
Hi Kamain7,
Thanks for the suggestion, and it makes sense.
However replacing in my nginx conf as below still does not work
server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /var/www/html/mysite; index index.php index.html index.htm; . . . location /more { alias /var/www/html/resources; index index.html index.htm; }
I did restart nginx as you suggested.
Suggestions?
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