Question

I have spent an hour looking for an answer to this, but unless you know the vocabulary it is very difficult to search. What I want is dead simple. I have a server like so:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name test.dev;
  root /srv/www;

  location / {
    index foo.html;
  }

  location /foo {
    index foo.html;
  }

  location /bar {
    index foo.html;
  }
}

What I want is for /, /foo, and /bar to all point to the exact same file. In other words, I want the location part to be completely ignored. Just serve the file from the root directory that I tell you to serve.

Alias doesn’t seem to be the answer, doesn’t know which file it is supposed to serve.

Answer 1

I’d probably use rewrite.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name test.dev;
  root /srv/www;

  location / {
  index foo.html;
  rewrite  ^/foo(.*)$ /$1  last;
  rewrite  ^/bar(.*)$ /$1  last;
  break;
  }

}

Something like that yah, I think you can figure it out from here 🙂