My files on disk have extensions: index.html
, a.html
. I want a request for http://example.com/a
to load /var/www/a.html
and http://example.com/
to load /var/www/index.html
. I want any other url to redirect to a canonical url, so http://example.com/a.html
should redirect to http://example.com/a
.
My configuration looks like:
rewrite ^(/.+)\.html$ $scheme://$host$1 permanent;
location / {
root /var/www;
try_files $uri.html $uri $uri/ =404;
}
This does redirect /a.html
to /a
and succeed at loading a.html
from disk:
$ curl -D- -s http://www.jefftk.com/food.html | grep ^Location
Location: http://www.jefftk.com/food
$ curl -s http://www.jefftk.com/food | grep ^Location
But it sends /
to /index
:
$ curl -s -D- http://www.jefftk.com/pictures/ | grep ^Location
Location: http://www.jefftk.com/pictures/index
$ curl -s -D- http://www.jefftk.com | grep ^Location
Location: http://www.jefftk.com/index
If I remove the rewrite rule it stops redirecting from /a.html
to /a
but also stops sending /
to /index
:
$ curl -D- -s http://www.jefftk.com/food.html | grep ^Location
$ curl -D- -s http://www.jefftk.com/food | grep ^Location
$ curl -D- -s http://www.jefftk.com/ | grep ^Location
$ curl -D- -s http://www.jefftk.com/pictures/ | grep ^Location
Why would this happen? Can I make nginx to both things I want (no .html
extension, no index
in url) at the same time?
I think your rewrite rule might be backwards. Maybe simply this (no rewrite rule):
location / {
try_files $uri.html $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location = / {
index index.html;
}
EDITED VERSION:
Sorry, I wasn't understanding your description completely. I reread it several times and tested this and it might be closing to what you are looking to do:
location = / {
try_files /index.html =404;
}
location = /index {
return 301 $scheme://$host;
}
location ~* \.html$ {
rewrite ^(.+)\.html$ $scheme://$host$1 permanent;
}
location / {
try_files $uri.html $uri/ @backend;
}
location @backend {
# rewrite or do whatever is default for your setup
rewrite ^ /index.html last;
// or return 404;
}
CODE EXAMPLE (REVISION 3):
I'm hoping the third time is a charm. Maybe this will solve your problem?
# example.com/index gets redirected to example.com/
location ~* ^(.*)/index$ {
return 301 $scheme://$host$1/;
}
# example.com/foo/ loads example.com/foo/index.html
location ~* ^(.*)/$ {
try_files $1/index.html @backend;
}
# example.com/a.html gets redirected to example.com/a
location ~* \.html$ {
rewrite ^(.+)\.html$ $scheme://$host$1 permanent;
}
# anything else not processed by the above rules:
# * example.com/a will load example.com/a.html
# * or if that fails, example.com/a/index.html
location / {
try_files $uri.html $uri/index.html @backend;
}
# default handler
# * return error or redirect to base index.html page, etc.
location @backend {
return 404;
}
Are you looking for something like this:
location / {
try_files $uri.html $uri/index.html =404;
}
Basically this will try the a.html
file first, if that fails it will then try index.html
and last show a 404
. Also please remember to restart nginx
after you edit your vhost
file.