Problem when using subfolder

[Bill Culp]

ngnix docs state that the closest match will always be found in location phrases

So why is alias needed?

On Dec 25, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:04:03AM -0500, PascalTurbo wrote:
> 
>> Hi There,
>> 
>> need to solve the following Problem:
>> 
>> location / should point to /var/www/myfirstside
>> and location /subside should point to /var/www/mysecondside
>> 
>> I have no idea how to solve this.
>> 
>> I tried:
>> 
>> location / {
>>  root /var/www/myfirstside
>> }
>> 
>> location /subside {
>>  root /var/www/mysecondside
>> }
>> 
>> but this doesn't work because nginx send all requests for /subside to
>> /var/www/mysecondside/subside ...
>> 
>> Could anybody help me?
> 
> Try "alias":
> 
>    location / {
>        root /var/www/myfirstside;
>    }
> 
>    location /subside/ {
>        alias /var/www/mysecondside/;
>    }
> 
> See http://nginx.org/r/alias for details.
> 
> -- 
> Maxim Dounin
> http://nginx.com/support.html
> 
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