Nginx dynamic location configuration

Question

My goal is to configure nginx to match locations dynamically like this:

http://www.domain.com/app-one
http://www.domain.com/app-two
http://www.domain.com/app-three

/usr/share/nginx/html/app-one/public
/usr/share/nginx/html/app-two/public
/usr/share/nginx/html/app-three/public

I'm confused how to do this. And if I can do it like this or if it's recommended or best practice to do something like this (I don't want to go the subdomain solution).

If I'm trying this:

location ~ /(^/)+ {
    alias   /usr/share/nginx/html/$1/public;
    index  index.html;
}

All I get is an 403.

But there's a way to handle that, right? Do you know how?

PS. Neither I found any explanation via google nor here that helps me.

And check the error.log. There should be mention of where nginx try to look for your files — Alexey Ten, May 24 '16 at 13:57
Thanks for the regex correction. That pushed me a step ahead. And thanks for the advice to look in the error.log. Next I have to find a way how to rewrite the uri, couse nginx now looks at: /usr/share/nginx/html/app-one/public/app-one/index.html — Lars Schinkel, May 24 '16 at 14:12

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '16 at 14:27

5

Try this

location ~ ^/([^/]+)(.*)$ {
    alias   /usr/share/nginx/html/$1/public$2;
    index  index.html;
}

answered May 24 '16 at 14:27

Alexey Ten

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Yep. That's it! Thank's a lot :) – Lars Schinkel May 24 '16 at 14:33

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