Question

I am serving static html with nginx.
I’d like mydomain.com to show index.html in the root folder. For links of the form /pages/page I want them to go to the root directory and pull up page.html from the pages folder.

Here’s what I came up with:

location / {
  root /var/www/public_html;
  index  index.html;
  try_files $uri $uri.html http://mysite.com;
} 

However, I get a 404 when I go to my site. It does render index.html if I use try_files /index.html $uri $uri.html http://mysite.com;

Answer 1

I have to use try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html http://mysite.com;. I thought the index directive was enough..