nginx configuration: additional Location throws 404

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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

cfcindia · Answer

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?

Kamal Nasser · Answer

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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nginx configuration: additional Location throws 404