Question
Nginx location testing is not redirecting to the correct page
Hello,
I am completely new to nginx, therefore please be kind. I have my domain registered and I am trying to get the following to happen.
When a user enters example.com I want them to get a 404. When they enter in example.com/test I want them to get my index.html. This is an unusual use case, but its what I would like.
I have set-up a site under
/var/www/example/publichtml // /with index.html as well
/var/www/example/publichtml/test //with index.html as well
The config is located under:
/etc/nginx/sites-available/example
The symbolic link is working and is:
/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example
Heres my config for example:
server
{
listen 80;
server_name example;
#not sure if i need the below to lines?
root /var/www/example/public_html;
index index.html index.htm;
location /
{
return 404;
}
location /test/
{
root /var/www/example/public_html/test;
index index.html index.htm;
}
}
When I enter example.com, I do get my 404. But when I go to example.com/test I just get a 404 as well, when I was hoping the /test/ would be matching and change the root so the index would show.
If I get rid of the two location checks, then typing www.example.com goes to my index.html page as expected.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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