nginx rewrite for static content

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I am serving static html with nginx. I'd like mydomain.com to show index.html in the root folder. For links of the form /pages/page I want them to go to the root directory and pull up page.html from the pages folder.

Here's what I came up with:

location / {
  root /var/www/public_html;
  index  index.html;
  try_files $uri $uri.html http://mysite.com;
}

However, I get a 404 when I go to my site. It does render index.html if I use try_files /index.html $uri $uri.html http://mysite.com;

m33lky · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-17 22:39:17Z

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I have to use try_files $uri $uri/index.html $uri.html http://mysite.com;. I thought the index directive was enough..

answered Feb 17, 2012 at 22:39

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