Alias in Nginx

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:25:58AM -0400, Michel Vega Fuenzalida wrote:

> Hello List, sorry my english,
> 
> I would like do like in Apache is make: "Alias /pepe /usr/share/pepe"
> Who I can do it in Nginx?

Use this:

    location /pepe {
        root /usr/share;
    }

In case uri prefix doesn't match directory name, e.g. "Alias /pepe 
/usr/share/something-else", one should use this:

    location /pepe {
        alias /usr/share/something-else;
    }

It is possible to use "alias" in your case too, but variant with 
"root" is a bit more efficient.

See here for details:

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#location
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#root
http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#alias

Maxim Dounin