Hi Ivo, On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 09:44:42AM -0800, Ivo Welch wrote: > I think my fundamental misunderstanding was that a `location` block in > the nginx configuration always maps to a directory (folder) in the > file system. The root just identifies the default file. (this also > means that the browser can then always look around for other files in > this directory, though they may be kept unreadable for security.)
The root directive's description, [1], provides details how the directive works. Would you mind to provide more details in case the documentation is unclear in that place, thank you. > I was trying to define one specific URL to map to one specific file in > the file system. Is this possible? That is, is there a way to map one > specific URL to one specific file? The alias directive [2] may help in some cases, so please take a look on that directive and report back how does that work for you. Thank you. References 1. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#root 2. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#alias -- Sergey A. Osokin _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
