correct usage of location context?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:01:57PM +0200, Szymon Polom wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 06:05:34PM +0200, Szymon Polom wrote:
> >As it was already said by Cliff:
> 
> [...]
> 
> As someone on #nginx pointed out I was actually looking for location + 
> alias not for location + root.

You should not use "alias" there, where "root" is enough. If you use

location /test/ {
    alias /var/www/test/;
}

then

location /test/ {
    root /var/www;
}

is just the some, but more efficient.


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