I posted about this issue a few days ago, however I fear that I needlessly complicated the question and some of the problems that I encountered were due to browser cache. So, here I go again:
With the following configuration, I get static content on the /admin location but NOT the / location: ==== STARTS HERE ==== server { #LISTEN CONFIG listen 443 ssl; server_name host.domain.tld #HSTS CONFIG UNCOMMENT BELOW TO ENABLE add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; preload"; keepalive_timeout 70; #LOGS CONFIG access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn; #SSL LETS ENCRYPT CERTIFICATE CONFIG ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/smtp-dev.deeztek.com/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/smtp-dev.deeztek.com/privkey.pem; # Turn on OCSP stapling as recommended at # https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/integration-guide/13123 # requires nginx version >= 1.3.7 #ssl_stapling on; #ssl_stapling_verify on; # maintain the .well-known directory alias for Lets Encrypt Certificate Renewals location /.well-known { root /var/www/html/; } ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3; ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH'; #ssl_dhparam /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/dhparam.pem; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m; proxy_max_temp_file_size 5120m; client_max_body_size 5120m; include /etc/nginx/snippets/authelia.conf; # Authelia auth endpoint #root /var/www/html; index index.cfm; location / { set $upstream_authelia http://127.0.0.1:9091; proxy_pass $upstream_authelia; client_body_buffer_size 128k; #Timeout if the real server is dead proxy_next_upstream error timeout invalid_header http_500 http_502 http_503; # Advanced Proxy Config send_timeout 5m; proxy_read_timeout 360; proxy_send_timeout 360; proxy_connect_timeout 360; # Basic Proxy Config proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Uri $request_uri; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Ssl on; proxy_redirect http:// $scheme://; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Connection ""; proxy_cache_bypass $cookie_session; proxy_no_cache $cookie_session; proxy_buffers 64 256k; # If behind reverse proxy, forwards the correct IP set_real_ip_from 10.0.0.0/8; set_real_ip_from 172.0.0.0/8; set_real_ip_from 192.168.0.0/16; set_real_ip_from fc00::/7; real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; real_ip_recursive on; } location ~* .(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|woff2|map)$ { expires max; } location /admin/ { proxy_pass http://localhost:8888; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; root /var/www/html/; include /etc/nginx/snippets/auth.conf; # Activates Authelia for specified route/location, please ensure you have setup the domain in your configuration.yml } ==== ENDS HERE ==== However, if I remove the following from the configuration above, I get static content from the / location but NOT the /admin location: location ~* .(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|woff2|map)$ { expires max; } Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,292760,292760#msg-292760 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx