Question

I’m trying to do something that I thought it was going to be very simple, but turned out is giving me lot of troubles.

I have a vhost under nginx defined like this

server {

    listen 80;
    server_name test.com;
    root   /var/apps/failover/;
    location / {
                index  index.html index.htm;
            }
} 

What I want to do is that all the request that have a request_uri set (ex: test.com/something) will go to only test.com/.

I want a kind of wildcard for uri that will redirect the user to the root of the vhost.

I tried many combination of rewrite statements, but I didn’t have anything working.

I’m sure it’s supposed to be simple, but I can’t make it work.

Answer 1

I finally made it work with something like this:

 server {
    listen 80;
    server_name text.com;
    root   /var/apps/failover/;
    location / {
      index index.html;
      error_page 404 =200 /index.html;
    }
 }

Unsure if it’s the best way, but works fine and it does what I need