By hirak
I am building a static site where the user will see a different index.html file based on their country.
My plan is to use GeoIp module in nginx where, if a person from country 1 visits my domain www.example.com his URL will be rewritten to www.example.com/country1 and its static site data will be served the from folder /var/www/site/country1/index.html . Similar logic will be applied to country2 and country3. If the person does not belong to these 3 countries, he will see the default page located in /var/www/site/index.html
But the problem is I am not able to find a solution for this. Sometimes I see 404 error, sometimes it shows 500 error indicating multiple internal redirections and sometimes it only shows the /var/www/site/country1/index.html file without any styling i.e. Not able to access any asset files located in /var/www/site/country1/assets.
Here is how my nginx.conf looks like ,
user www-data;
pid /run/nginx.pid;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 65535;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;
load_module modules/ngx_http_geoip2_module.so;
load_module modules/ngx_pagespeed.so;
load_module modules/ngx_http_brotli_filter_module.so;
load_module modules/ngx_http_brotli_static_module.so;
events {
multi_accept on;
worker_connections 65535;
}
http {
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" "$http_x-webp-convert-log" ';
charset utf-8;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
server_tokens off;
log_not_found off;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
client_max_body_size 16M;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
server {
listen 80 ;
server_name _;
deny all;
return 444;
location / {
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /40x.html {
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
}
}
}
And Here is my Configuration file for the website ,
geoip2 /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoLite2-Country.mmdb {
$geoip2_data_country_iso_code country iso_code;
}
map $geoip2_data_country_iso_code $redirect_country {
default other;
GB country1 ;
US country2 ;
IN country3 ;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com;
index index.html;
root /var/www/static/www.example.com;
client_max_body_size 50M;
include /etc/nginx/pagespeed.conf;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/security.conf ;
if ($redirect_country = country1)
{
#This is where i am making the changes
#rewrite "^.*$" /country1 break ;
#rewrite ^ https://www.example.com/country1$uri break;
#rewrite ^ https://www.example.com/country1 break ;
#return 444;
#rewrite ^ $scheme://$server_name/country1$request_uri break;
#rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://www.example.com$uri break;
#return 301 https://www.example.com/country1/index.html break ;
#rewrite ^ https://www.example.com/(.*) https://www.example.com/country1 $1 break;
#rewrite ^/(.*)$ https://www.example.com/country1/$1 redirect;
# rewrite "^.*$" /country1/country1.html$uri break;
rewrite "^.*$" /country1$request_uri break;
}
if ($redirect_country = country3)
{
rewrite "^.*$" /country3$uri break ;
}
if ($redirect_country = country2)
{
rewrite "^.*$" /country2$uri break ;
}
if ($redirect_country = other)
{
rewrite "^.*$" $request_uri break ;
}
access_log /var/log/nginx/sg.foodlisa.tk.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/sg.foodlisa.tk.error.log;
location /
{
#root /var/www/static/www.example.com;
# try_files $uri /index.html;
#try_files $uri = return 404;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
}
location /country1
{
#This is where i am making the changes
index country1.html ;
root /var/www/static/www.example.com/country1/;
#try_files $uri /country1/index.html;
#try_files $uri /index.html;
#break;
autoindex off;
# try_files $uri $uri/ /var/www/static/www.example.com/country1/index.html?q=$uri&$args;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
}
location /country2
{
root /var/www/static/www.example.com/country2;
index index.html ;
}
location /country3
{
root /var/www/static/www.example.com/country3;
index index.html ;
try_files $uri /index.html;
}
location /sw.js
{
add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
proxy_cache_bypass $http_pragma;
proxy_cache_revalidate on;
expires off;
access_log off;
}
location ~ \.css
{
add_header Content-Type text/css;
}
location ~ \.js
{
add_header Content-Type application/x-javascript;
}
}
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To solve your problem, you can try the following example of an Nginx configuration:
- server {
- listen 80;
- server_name www.example.com;
-
- root /var/www/site;
- index index.html;
-
- location / {
- try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
- }
-
- location ~ ^/(country1|country2|country3)$ {
- try_files /$1/index.html$1/ =404;
- }
-
- location ~ ^/(country1|country2|country3)/assets {
- try_files /$1/$uri =404;
- }
- }
In the example above, the server block listens to requests targeting the www.example.com domain on port 80. The root directive is set to the /var/www/site directory, and the index directive is set to `index.html.
Hope that this helps!
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