Newbie needs help

Server NGINX
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Hi,
new in ths nginx, with following config, I want to achieve:

http://sample.com/ render index.html
http://sample.com/test, or anything after ‘/’ path, render index.html

server {
listen 80;
server_name sample.com ;
root /var/www/sample/public_html;

location / {
index index.html index.htm;
}

location ~ ^/.* {
index index.html;
}

}

but when I do this, and got 404 error, anything missing here? Thanks
Angelo

curl -I http://sample.com/test

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

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2

Thanks for the reply, it works, and also I read again those references.
a
related issue, say:

if somebody enter this url in the browser:
http://sample.com/not_exist_url

and I’d like to redirect it to

http://sample.com/

with the try_files approach, index.html got displayed, that’s right, but
the
url in browser still remain as http://sample.com/not_exist_url, i’m
looking
for a 302 i believe, any suggestions? thanks.

Angelo

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On Thursday 30 May 2013 14:02:00 angelochen960 wrote:

Hi,
new in ths nginx, with following config, I want to achieve:

http://sample.com/ render index.html
http://sample.com/test, or anything after ‘/’ path, render index.html

server {
listen 80;
server_name sample.com;

  root /var/www/sample/public_html;

  location / {
      try_files /index.html =404;
  }

}

    index index.html;

Since your config looks incorrect, it seems you are missing
understanding of how
nginx works.

You should try to read documentation:

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

–
http://nginx.org/en/donation.html

4

that works, thanks.

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On Thursday 30 May 2013 16:25:18 angelochen960 wrote:

the url in browser still remain as http://sample.com/not_exist_url, i’m
looking for a 302 i believe, any suggestions? thanks.

Yes, you’re looking for an external redirect, that is completely
different thing. Then this config will serve your needs:

server {
listen 80;
server_name sample.com;

  root /var/www/sample/public_html;

  location = / {
      try_files /index.html =404;
  }

  location / {
      return 302 /;
  }

}

Reference:

wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

–
http://nginx.org/en/donation.html