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Serve Jekyll blog on Nginx

I am trying to serve a jekyll blog on nginx. The files in the build directory should be reachable via the following routes:

  - index.html -> /
  - 1.0/
    - index.html -> /1.0/
    - foo/
        a.html   -> /1.0/foo/a/
        b.html   -> /1.0/foo/b/
        c.html   -> /1.0/foo/c/
    - bar/
        1.html   -> /1.0/bar/1/
        2.html   -> /1.0/bar/2/

I tried to use the try_files directive in nginx but it always calls the fallback although the files are available. Here is the config:

location ~* ^(.+)/$ {
  try_files $uri /$1/index.html /$1.html =404;
}

If I remove the 404 fallback it only works for the last value.

So my question is: What's the best way to configure nginx for serving static files like this?

Solution

  • If I remove the 404 fallback it only works for the last value.

    This is because the last parameter of try_files directive should be an HTTP error code or an URI to try if the file not found. In your case nginx assumes it is an URI.

    Try this:

    location ~ ^(?<path>/.*/)(?<file>[^/]+)/$ {
    try_files $uri $path$file.html $uri/ =404;
}

    If you want to serve http://example.com/1.0/foo/a requests similar to http://example.com/1.0/foo/a/, change regex to ^(?<path>/.*/)(?<file>[^/]+)/?$.