FAQ Suggestions

[Ivo Welch]

thank you, F.  I created a completely new ubuntu VM, with a completely
vanilla configuration and only this one extra location statement at
http://164.67.176.22/  , describing the nginx configuration and
referencing its /wth, and it's not working :-( .

On Sun, Feb 19, 2023 at 5:37 AM Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 05:27:45PM -0800, Ivo Welch wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > 1. is this mailing list the correct place to suggest additions to the FAQ?
>
> It's as good a place as any, yes.
>
> > 2. why does
> >
> > ```
> > location /wth {
> >    root /var/www/fcgi-bin/;
> >    index wth-root.html;
> >  }
> > ```
> >
> > not resolve '/wth' (but incidentally does resolve '/wth-root.html',
> > though not '/wth-root').
>
> What test makes you believe that "location /wth" does not resolve the
> request "/wth", in your config?
>
> > I have been scratching my head about this for the longest time.
>
> What other location{}s are in this config, which you might have told
> nginx to use instead of this one?
>
> Can you show one example config that shows the problem?
>
> For example, if I use:
>
> ```
> server {
>         listen 10080;
>         root /tmp/r;
>         location /wth {
>                 root /tmp/w;
>                 index w.html;
>         }
> }
> ```
>
> then "curl http://localhost:10080/wth" redirects me to
> http://localhost:10080/wth/; and "curl http://localhost:10080/wth/"
> gets me the content of /tmp/w/wth/w.html.
>
> Do you see or expect something different?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         f
> --
> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
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