Nginx serving wrong site

[James Read]

I literally copied a working configuration. The only changes I made were
the name of the server and the root to find the files to be served.

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024, 08:20 Francis Daly, <francis at daoine.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 08:11:21AM -0500, James Read wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > My nginx server is serving the wrong site. I found this explanation
> online
> >
> https://www.computerworld.com/article/2987967/why-your-nginx-server-is-responding-with-content-from-the-wrong-site.html
> > However this explanation doesn't seem to fit my case as I have a location
> > which nginx should match correctly. Is there any other reason why nginx
> > would serve the wrong site?
>
> It pretty much always is because what you think you have told nginx to
> do is not what you have actually told nginx to do.
>
> (The other occasions are usually when your browser is not talking to the
> nginx that you think it is talking to.)
>
> To a first approximation: when a request comes to nginx, it first chooses
> which server{} to handle the request in, then chooses which location{}
> within that server{} to handle the request in.
>
> Can you show a configuration and a request that is handled in a different
> location{} from what you want?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         f
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