How to set index html as root file in Nginx

Question

How to set index html for the domain name e g  https   www example com  - leads user to index html in root directory    I ve tried different things like    server         some configs      location                   index index html              fastcgi index index html        or      location                 index index html              fastcgi index index html             Nothing helped me    There are some other configs with location keyword  though I d commented them either   Other  location  configs in the server   clause    location      css htc js bmp jp g gif ico cur png swf htm  html             access log off          root  www root     location     php            include                          etc nginx fastcgi params          index                           index html          fastcgi index                   index html          fastcgi param SCRIPT FILENAME    www root fastcgi script name          fastcgi param QUERY STRING       query string          fastcgi param PATH INFO          fastcgi path info          fastcgi pass                    127 0 0 1 9000                                            FastCGI-                                  400                                       nginx                       error page         fastcgi intercept errors        on          break     location      ht       deny all      All them were commented and uncommented  but nothing helped   PS Editions were made in  etc nginx sites-enabled domainname com file

User · Answer

According to the documentation Checks the existence of files in the specified order and uses the first found file for request processing; the processing is performed in the current context. The path to a file is constructed from the file parameter according to the root and alias directives. It is possible to check directory’s existence by specifying a slash at the end of a name, e.g. “$uri/”. If none of the files were found, an internal redirect to the uri specified in the last parameter is made. Important

an internal redirect to the uri specified in the last parameter is made.

So in last parameter you should add your page or code if first two parameters returns false.

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/index.html index.html;
}

User · Answer

in your location block you can do   location       try files  uri  uri index html      which will tell ngingx to look for a file with the exact name given first  and if none such file is found it will try uri index html  So if a request for https   www example com  comes it it would look for an exact file match first  and not finding that would then check for index html

User · Answer

location     is the most general location  with location     It will match anything  AFAIU  I doubt that it would be useful to have location     index index html    because of a lot of duplicate content for every subdirectory of your site   The approach with      try files  uri  uri index html index html    is bad  as mentioned in a comment above  because it returns index html for pages which should not exist on your site  any possible  uri will end up in that   Also  as mentioned in an answer above  there is an internal redirect in the last argument of try files    Your approach    location          index index html     is also bad  since index makes an internal redirect too  In case you want that  you should be able to handle that in a specific location  Create e g   location    index html     as was proposed here  But then you will have a working link http   example org index html  which may be not desired  Another variant  which I use  is   root  www my-root     http   example org     means exact location location           try files  index html  404       disable http   example org index as a duplicate content location    index        return 404       This is a general location      e g  http   example org contacts  lt - contacts html  location           use fastcgi or whatever you need here       return 404 if doesn t exist     try files  uri html  404      P S  It s extremely easy to debug nginx  if your binary allows that   Just add into the server   block   error log  var log nginx debug log debug    and see there all internal redirects etc

User · Answer

For me  the try files directive in the  currently most voted  answer https   stackoverflow com a 11957896 608359 led to rewrite cycles    173 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting   I had better luck with the index directive  Note that I used a forward slash before the name  which might or might not be what you want   server     listen 443 ssl    server name example com     root  home dclo example    index  index html    error page 404  index html           ssl configuration     In this case  I wanted all paths to lead to  index html  including when returning a 404

User · Answer

The answer is to place the root dir to the location directives   root    srv www ducklington org public html

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