Static homepage at root

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 09:01:35PM -0400, yourenew wrote:

> I'm trying to host a static homepage, but send all other queries on to the proxy (which leads to django), but I'm having trouble getting it to work.  It seems to ignore the first location directive.  Are these correctly configured?  (I'm running nginx 0.6.35 and Ubuntu 9.04)
> 
> listen 80;
>   location = / {
>     root /var/www/aya/htdocs/html/;
>     index index.html;
>   }

This will cause internal redirect to /index.html.  So you also 
need to configure location to handle it.

    location = /index.html {
      root /var/www/aya/htdocs/html/;
    }

>   location / {
>     proxy_pass http://aya;
>     include proxy.conf;
>   }

Maxim Dounin