nginx configuration: additional Location throws 404

December 6, 2014 8k views
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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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2 Answers
kamaln7 MOD December 6, 2014

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

Check out the nginx documentation on alias and root.

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cfcindia December 7, 2014

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 defaultserver;
listen [::]:80 defaultserver 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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