Nginx - another root for a specific location

Question

I have some static html files under:

/var/www/project1

Nginx config for this project is:

server_name             www.project1.com project1.com;
root                    /var/www/project1;

location / {
    index           index.html;
}

My goal is to use nginx so that when a user enters this url:

www.project1.com/project2

Nginx uses another root, I have tried:

 location /project2 {
     root /var/www/project2;
     index index.html;
}

But this is not working. Any idea on how to achieve this?

what is your actual path for project2? Is it ``/var/log/project2``? You should use ``root /var/www`` in your location for project2 or you will be looking for files under ``/var/www/project2/project2`` — Hammer, May 27 '16 at 10:38
@Lution, thx, that fixed the issue. In fact, the path of project2 is `/var/www/project2`. Could you please answer this and I'll accept — Milos Cuculovic, May 27 '16 at 10:42

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '16 at 10:55

According to your config of project2

location /project2 {
    root /var/www/project2;
    index index.html;
}

Nginx will be looking for files under the path /var/www/project2/project2/ for your requests to project2. So if your project2 is under /var/www/project2, The correct config should be

location /project2 {
    root /var/www;
    index index.html;
}

Another alternative is to use alias instead of root.

in your case is alias /var/www/project2, check here

Nginx - another root for a specific location

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