How do i serve a file with different name in nginx?

Question

Lets say i get a GET request to file /dir/01/23/file.ext. I would like to serve the file /dir/01/23 which is an extensionless file. The filename should be file.ext rather then 03 and the mime of .ext should be used. How do i write a rule in nginx to do that?

Answer 1

rewrite  ^/dir/01/23/file.ext$  /dir/01/23  break;

or

rewrite  ^(.*)/file.ext$  $1  break;

you may also need to specify dedicated location. For example:

location /dir {
  root   $docroot;
}