How to host angularjs1 app on nginx that hosts other applications

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I have an angularjs one application in a dist folder. I would like to host it on my nginx. My nginx currently hosts multiple applications via proxy_pass. I've never hosted a static html app on nginx so I'm not sure what to do.

I have my app in dist folder on the nginx server at location /home/anthony/dist.
My nginx configuration has only a single file in ssl_proxy in sites-enabled folder
Under sites-available I have a locations folder that contains various .conf files.

I've created a new file at /etc/nginx/sites-available/locations/mystatic.conf and placed the following content in it:

location /mystatic {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /home/anthony/dist/index.html;
}

But after restarting nginx and going to http://<myserver>/mystatic I get a 404.

Faisal Memon · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-12 04:03:50Z

1

Try:

location /mystatic {
    index index.html;
    alias /home/anthony/dist;
}

answered Feb 12, 2017 at 4:03

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8 Comments

Anthony Over a year ago

adding index index.html gives a 404. However, removing that line and just keeping `alias /home/anthony/dist; fetches a 403 error.

Anthony Over a year ago

Here is the access.log with 403 error and permissions on the dist folder and my conf file gist.github.com/Omnipresent/2c0d17593ca6f868e03f0d4b385d1326

Faisal Memon Over a year ago

Looks like a permissions issue. Chown to www-data:www-data on the folder and the files in it.

Anthony Over a year ago

will that work? because my nginx.conf has user nginx in it

Anthony Over a year ago

chown: invalid user: www-data:www-data I have done chown -R nginx:nginx /home/anthony/dist but that also gives 403 error...

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