Redirect from empty location in nginx

Question

I have nginx proxy and I want all requests to be proxied to another server with the same uri.

Here's what I did:

location / {
    proxy_pass https://example.com;
}

But I need one exception in this rule - when url is empty (user visits actual / location) I want to proxy this request to https://example.com/index

How do I write a rule for an empty url?

Answer 1

I guess, you mean / location as this is the “minimal” location. You could use “exact match” (=) modifier:

location / {
    proxy_pass https://example.com;
}

location = / {
    proxy_pass https://example.com/index;
}