nginx sends 301 redirect for alias in location

Thu Sep 6 04:06:31 UTC 2018

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:25 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 09:58:54AM +0300, Peter Volkov wrote:
>
> > Hi. Could you, please, explain. Why nginx sends 301 redirect for the
> > following vhost:
> >
> > server {
> >     listen 80;
> >     server_name test.domain.tv <http://test.m9.smotreshka.tv>;
> >
> >     access_log off;
> >
> >     location = /test/README.txt {
> >         alias /var/www/;
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > Here is redirect:
> >
> >  $ http http://test.domain.tv/test/README.txt
> > HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> > Connection: keep-alive
> > Content-Length: 178
> > Content-Type: text/html
> > Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 06:55:27 GMT
> > Keep-Alive: timeout=20
> > Location: http://test.domain.tv/test/README.txt/
> > Server: nginx
> >
> > <html>
> > <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
> > <body bgcolor="white">
> > <center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
> > <hr><center>nginx</center>
> > </body>
> > </html>
>
> You've aliased "/test/README.txt" into a directory "/var/www/".
> Since the URI "/test/README.txt" does not have a trailing slash,
> nginx returns a redirect with a trailing slash added, much like it
> does when requesting a directory without a trailing shash.
>

Thank you, Maxim. That was the problem!

--
Peter.
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