alias

[Francis Daly]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:03:55PM +0000, Matthew Ngaha wrote:

Hi there,

> hi all, i just had a quick question about this example.

Where does the example come from? It may be worth asking the author to
fix it.

> http {
>    server {
>        server_name localhost;
>        root /var/www/website.com/html;
>         location /admin/ {
>         alias /var/www/locked/;
>       }
>    }
> }

If you ask for http://localhost/request.html, nginx will try to
send the file /var/www/website.com/html/request.html. If you ask for
http://localhost/admin/request.html, nginx will try to send the file
/var/www/locked/request.html.

> my question is about the alias variable inside the location /admin/ {}
> block. It clearly shows /var/www/locked/ as its path, but when
> explained below, it says the path is /home/website.com/locked/..

The explanation is wrong.

> also the path having website.com in it. Does this mean a directory was
> named website.com, with the period?

Yes.

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