Proxying and static files

[Francis Daly]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 08:26:35AM -0500, epoch1 wrote:

Hi there,

> I've tried something like the following but can't get it work for each app:
> location ~* /(images|css|js|files)/ {
>     root /home/username/app1/public/;
> }
> 
> If I request app1/js/script.js for example it goes to
> /home/username/app1/public/app1/js/script.js rather than
> /home/username/app1/public/js/script.js

If the web request /one/two/thr.ee does not correspond to a file
/docroot/one/two/thr.ee, then you probably want to use "alias"
(http://nginx.org/r/alias) instead of "root".

It's not clear to me what your exact pattern for recognising "static"
vs "dynamic" files is; perhaps something like one of

  location /app1/images/ {
    alias /home/username/app1/public/images/;
  }

(with similar things for the other directories); or

  location ~* ^/app1/(images|css|js|files)/(.*) {
    alias /home/username/app1/public/$1/$2;
  }

or

  location ~* ^/app1/(.*.(js|css))$ {
    alias /home/username/app1/public/$1;
  }

In each case, the "location"s (particularly the regex one) could be
nested within the matching "main" location that you already have.

God luck with it,

	f
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Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org