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How do I get nginx to ignore requests on http://127.0.0.1/ but hand out from my html directory on http://127.0.0.1/somename this will also need to be the same for the proxy for /data/


I have tried the below and only get a 404.

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;

    location / {
        #Do I need something in here regardless?
    }

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


    #reverse proxy for ie support
    #
    location /somename/data {
        proxy_pass  http://localhost:8080/data/;
        proxy_set_header  host localhost;
    }

    # redirect error pages to the static pages /50x.html /40x.html
    error_page  404              /404.html;
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;

    location = /50x.html {
        root   ../html;
    }

    location = /404.html {
        root   ../html;
    }

}

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location / {
    return 404;
}

location /somename/ {
    alias  ../html/;
    index  index.html index.htm;
}
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What do you mean by "ignore"? If you access http://127.0.0.1/, what behaviour do you want?

I think it reasonable that you get a 404 if you access a path for which your web server does not have a file to send back to the client.

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  • Ah correct a 404 would be fine. However I also get a 404 for http://127.0.0.1/somename with the above config for location /somename. If I set the same config for location / I get my home page as I would expect.
    – sphvn
    Jul 20, 2012 at 10:57

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