nginx - Serve Single URL with Absolute FIle Path

Question

I have a website that's getting a ton of traffic to a single url.

https://www.awebsite.com/some/really/long/search-friendly/url/my-url.html

I want to serve this, and only this url statically with nginx. The static html file lives at /my/html-files/myfile.html, with the correct permissions.

I DO NOT want this url to be affected:

https://www.awebsite.com/some/really/long/search-friendly/url/some-other-url.html

I've tried...

location = /some/really/long/search-friendly/url/myfile.html {
    alias /my/html-files/myfile.html;
}

and...

location = /some/really/long/search-friendly/url/myfile.html {
    root /my/html-files/myfile.html;
}

and...

location = /some/really/long/search-friendly/url/myfile.html {
    root /my/html-files/;
}

I can't get anything to work. Please help! Thanks.

UPDATE:

Turns out this is working in Chrome and Opera.

location = /some/really/long/search-friendly/url/myfile.html {
    alias /my/html-files/myfile.html;
}

For whatever reason, in Firefox, I'm constantly redirected to https://www.awebsite.com/some/really/long/search-friendly/url/my-url.html/. So Confused as to why this is happening only in FF, but, I'll take it for now.

As you've noted, the alias option is a working solution. Have you cleared the FF browser's cache? — Richard Smith
– Richard Smith, Commented Oct 11, 2018 at 8:21
I thought shift-R was a hard refresh in FF. Am I wrong about this? — scoopseven
– scoopseven, Commented Oct 11, 2018 at 18:32
I think you mean Ctrl-R (which is the same as F5) and does not override the cache. You would need to use Ctrl-Shift-R (or Ctrl-F5) to override the cache. — Richard Smith
– Richard Smith, Commented Oct 11, 2018 at 19:45
Because it was a redirect that was cached, I had to go into Preferences and manually clear the cache, restart FF and it started working as expected. — scoopseven
– scoopseven, Commented Oct 12, 2018 at 14:39

Ojasvi Monga · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-19 09:25:29Z

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Turns out this is working in Chrome and Opera.

location = /some/really/long/search-friendly/url/myfile.html {
    alias /my/html-files/myfile.html;
}

If it's not, see comments; it could be a browser caching problem.

Nginx documentation for alias

edited Jun 19, 2019 at 9:25

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answered Oct 12, 2018 at 14:41

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