try_files for alias

[Edho P Arief]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Edho P Arief<edhoprima at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do I make this work?
>
> location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ { alias /home/someapp/root$1; try_files $uri
> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
>
> The try_files never catch the $uri (nor $1) and returns 500 (redirection cycle)
>
> Am I 'forced' to use error_page in this case?
>
> This works:
>
> location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ { alias /home/someapp/root$1; error_page 404
> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
>
> and without regex the error_page and try_files seem to be completely ignored:
> neither
>    location /~someapp/ { alias /home/someapp/root/; error_page 404
> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
> nor
>    location /~someapp/ { alias /home/someapp/root/; try_files $uri
> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
> works.
>

I also find using this works

location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ {
    root /home/someapp/root/;
    try_files $1 /~someapp/err404.htm;
}

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