Alias routing in nginx-0.8.13

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 02:24:57AM -0400, pcdinh wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I just upgraded to nginx-0.8.13 and found that there is a change in alias routing, making part of my website does not work any more.
> 
> My configuration
> 
>         location ~ /gostats($|/.*) {
>            autoindex on;
>            access_log off;
>            alias /home/web/usage/site$1;
>            index index.html;
> 
>            # if the requested file exists, return it immediately
>            if (-f $request_filename) {
>                break;
>            }
>         }
> 
> It works in 0.8.9, 0.8.10 but not in 0.8.13
> 
> Here is the error log when I access to http://mydomain.com/gostats
> 
> 2009/09/02 13:21:25  6481#0: *77052 open() "/home/web/usage/site/index.htmlhtml" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 117.1.253.209, server: mydomain.com, request: "GET /gostats/ HTTP/1.1", host: "mydomain.com"
> 
> The problem is there is redundant "html" appended to the static HTML file, making /home/web/usage/site/index.html into /home/web/usage/site/index.htmlhtml
> 
> Is is a bug?

Yes. This is because of

    if (-f $request_filename) {
        break;
    }

You do not need this.

Also, you may use just without any regex:

         location /gostats {
            autoindex on;
            access_log off;
            alias /home/web/usage/site;
            index index.html;
         }


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