Nginx - Separate location for /

Question

I'd like to use nginx to have one location used for just the root url (https://example.com/) and serve all other file from a different location. Eventually I want to use this to do authentication on / before proxying, but initially I'm just trying with simple file locations.

Based on the documentation I'm using two location blocks:

server { listen 443 ssl; ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/cert.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/cert.key; location = / { root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.html; } location / { root /usr/share/nginx/html2; } } 

But requests for https:// example.com/ are getting /usr/share/nginx/html2/index.html rather than /usr/share/nginx/html/index.html

Similarly, I've tried:

 location = / { root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.html; } location ~* ^/.* { root /usr/share/nginx/html2; } 

But I get the same result.

Is there a straightforward way to get this to work?

Answer 1

That's because the index directive will make an internal redirect to /index.html thus it's matching the second location block. Change the first block to this :

location ~ ^/(index\.html)?$ { root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.html; }