[PATCH v4 07/12] Static: add "index" option

Mon Feb 14 17:22:28 UTC 2022

On 2/14/22 15:14, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:

> I could reproduce the 301 behavior in nginx with a clean debian nginx 
> install, by changing the index line in 
> </etc/nginx/sites-available/default>:
> 
> ...
> #    index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
>      index dir;
> ...
> 
> And then create a directory 'dir' in </var/www/html> (which is the 'root'):
> 
> $ sudo mkdir /var/www/html/dir
> $ sudo systemctl reload nginx
> 
> After that, a curl on localhost gives 301 Moved Permanently, exactly as 
> in Unit after the proposed patch set.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alex
> 

Full config file:

$ cat /etc/nginx/sites-available/default | grep -v '\s*#'
server {
	listen 80 default_server;
	listen [::]:80 default_server;

	root /var/www/html;

	index dir;

	server_name _;

	location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
	}

}

$ ls -l /var/www/html/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 14:56 dir
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  612 Feb 14 14:40 index.nginx-debian.html

$ curl localhost
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0</center>
</body>
</html>

$ sudo mv /var/www/html/dir /var/www/directory

user at sqli:/etc/nginx/sites-available$ curl localhost
<html>
<head><title>403 Forbidden</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>403 Forbidden</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0</center>
</body>
</html>

So if nginx tries to serve a nonexisting file, I get 403, but if it 
tries to serve a directory (and autoindex is off), I get 301.

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/