Location Alias not working

[İhsan Doğan]

Hi,

On Saturday, 27 Aug 2016 21:50 +0100, Francis Daly wrote:

> > I've defined a location alias in my nginx.conf:
> 
> > 	location	/foo/ {
> > 			alias /var/www/foo/;
> > 	}
> 
> > Even the directory /var/www/foo exists, Nginx is returns a 404. As I
> > understand, the configuration is right, but I can't see what's wrong.
> 

As requested, I've attached the full configuration file.

> What specific test request do you make?

GET /foo/ with curl:
$ curl https://foo.bar.com/foo/

> What file on the filesystem do you want nginx to return?

UFS (FreeBSD).

> What does your error.log say about the 404 response?

2016/08/28 18:53:32 [error] 22231#0: *11704 open()
"/usr/local/www/foo.bar.com404" failed (2: No such file or
directory), client: 2a02:168:9800::50, server: foo.bar.com,
request: "GET /foo/ HTTP/1.1", host: "foo.bar.com"

> (Is there another location{} block that handles your request, instead
> of the one you showed here?)

Not that I'm aware of.



-Ihsan

-- 
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worker_processes  2;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    use kqueue;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush      on;

    keepalive_timeout  100;

    server_tokens off;

    charset UTF-8;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
    gzip_buffers 4 32k;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)";

    client_max_body_size 10G;
    large_client_header_buffers 4 32k;

    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;  # don?t use SSLv3 ref: POODLE
    ssl_ciphers ECDH+CHACHA20:ECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:EDH+AES:!ADH:!AECDH:!MD5:!DSS;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout 10m;
    ssl_dhparam /usr/local/etc/nginx/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_ecdh_curve secp384r1;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify off;

    log_format ssl_custom '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  '
                          '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
			  '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
			  '$gzip_ratio '
			  '$ssl_protocol:$ssl_cipher';

server {
        listen 80;
	listen [::]:80;
        server_name foo.bar.com;
        return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;  # enforce https
}

server {
	listen 443 ssl http2;
	listen [::]:443 ssl http2;

        server_name foo.bar.com;

	access_log /var/log/nginx/foo.bar.com/access.log ssl_custom;

	ssl_certificate server.crt;
	ssl_certificate_key server.key;

        root /usr/local/www/foo/bar;

        fastcgi_buffers 64 4K;

        rewrite ^/caldav(.*)$ /remote.php/caldav$1 redirect;
        rewrite ^/carddav(.*)$ /remote.php/carddav$1 redirect;
        rewrite ^/webdav(.*)$ /remote.php/webdav$1 redirect;

        index index.php index.html;

        location = /robots.txt {
            allow all;
            log_not_found off;
        }

        location ~ /owncloud/(?:\.htaccess|data|config|db_structure\.xml|README) {
                deny all;
        }

	location ~ ^/usr/local/www/foo.bar.com/(owncloud/)?data {
		internal;
		root /;
	}
	location ~ ^/var/tmp/oc-noclean/.+$ {
		internal;
		root /;
	}

        location / {
                # The following 2 rules are only needed with webfinger
                rewrite ^/.well-known/host-meta/public.php?service=host-meta last;
                rewrite ^/.well-known/host-meta.json/public.php?service=host-meta-json last;

                rewrite ^/.well-known/carddav /remote.php/carddav/ redirect;
                rewrite ^/.well-known/caldav /remote.php/caldav/ redirect;
		rewrite ^/apps/calendar/caldav.php /remote.php/caldav/ last;
		rewrite ^/apps/contacts/carddav.php /remote.php/carddav/ last;
		rewrite ^/apps/([^/]*)/(.*\.(css|php))$/index.php?app=$1&getfile=$2 last;	

                rewrite ^(/core/doc/[^\/]+/)$ $1/index.html;

                try_files $uri $uri/ index.php;
        }

	location ~ /pydio/conf/       { deny all; }
	location ~ /pydio/data/       { deny all; }

        location ~ ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)?$ {
                try_files $1 = 404;
		include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$1;
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $2;
                fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
		fastcgi_param MOD_X_ACCEL_REDIRECT_ENABLED on;
		fastcgi_read_timeout 3600;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock;
        }

        # Optional: set long EXPIRES header on static assets
        location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|bmp|ico|png|css|js|swf)$ {
                expires 30d;
	}

        location /mozsync/ {
		rewrite  ^/mozsync(.+)$ $1 break;
                proxy_pass_header Server;
                proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
                proxy_redirect off;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Scheme $scheme;
                proxy_connect_timeout 10;
                proxy_read_timeout 10;
                proxy_pass http://unix:/tmp/mozsync.sock;
	}

	location /chive/ {
        	try_files $uri chive/$uri/ /chive/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
	}

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

}
}