How to serve specific static files with nginx?

Question

I have queries like /api/lang?lang=en which I want to serve with nginx as /server/i18n-angular/en.json. How can I do that?

I have the following directory structure:

/public/
/server/i18n-angular/en.json

I have the following configuration, but nginx says it is wrong to use index directive at that point.

server {
  root /public
  ...
  location /api/lang {
    if ($args ~* "\?lang=(.+)") {
      set $language $1;
      index ../server/i18n-angular/$language.json;
    }
  }
}

What directive should I use instead of index?

I think you'll find more people to answer this kind of question on serverfault.. — Steve Midgley
– Steve Midgley, Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 18:28

SuddenHead · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17 10:46:51Z

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location /api/lang {
    alias /server/i18n-angular;
    rewrite ^ /$arg_lang.json;
}

answered Mar 17, 2015 at 10:46

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Barney Szabolcs Over a year ago

That's a pretty elegant solution!

Denis Mysenko · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-17 06:07:37Z

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"index" specifies index file for displaying a folder, so it's not what you need.

You require "rewrite" instead:

location /api/lang {
    alias /server/i18n-angular;
    if ($args ~* "\?lang=(.+)") {
      set $language $1;
      rewrite ^/(.*)$ /$language.json;
    }
}

answered Mar 17, 2015 at 6:07

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