nginx not using root from location

[Francis Daly]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 03:47:23PM -0400, reaper wrote:

Hi there,

> Yes! That was it. Thank you. 

Good stuff.

> Strange that nginx -t didn't say anything wrong with config :(

There's nothing wrong with the config. It is syntactically correct.

When you request /testlocation/, nginx will look for the
file /data/www/htdocs/web/testlocation/index.html, then the
file /data/www/htdocs/web/testlocation/root, then the file
/data/www/htdocs/web/data/www/htdocs/test, and then fail 404, which is
exactly what you told it to do.

The fact that that is not what you *wanted* to tell nginx to do, is not
something that nginx can reliably guess. So it doesn't try.

Cheers,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org