Hi
On Sun, Feb 19, 2023, at 10:27, Ivo Welch wrote:
> 2. why does
>
> ```
> location /wth {
> root /var/www/fcgi-bin/;
> index wth-root.html;
> }
> ```
>
> not resolve '/wth' (but incidentally does resolve '/wth-root.html',
> though not '/wth-root').
>
it's one of the common confusions. Just /wth doesn't trigger index listing as
it doesn't end with a forward slash. /wth-root does match because /wth matches
anything that starts with /wth (some people seem to think it matches /wth/
directory but it really doesn't - it's just prefix matching after all).
If you have /var/www/fcgi-bin/wtha.html file and try accessing /wtha.html,
it'll return that file, for example. Same with /wth-root.html as you
experienced.
Back to /wth, it'll try to return file /var/www/fcgi-bin/wth (which probably
doesn't exist).
If what you actually want is to to match /wth/, it needs to be `location
/wth/`. Although then it can't be accessed through /wth as it doesn't match
anymore (unless it exists as directory in other location like `location /`). In
which case I usually add `location = /wth { return 302 /wth/; }` to fix this
one special case.
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