Nginx Configuration for Dynamic URL Segments as Arguments for Parent Segment Index

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I am trying to set a location in the configuration that allows me to do something like https://example.com/car/<vin> which would not go to a <vin> application or directory but to /car/index.html. From there, I would read the URL or pass <vin> to /car/index.html.

I have tried various regex location blocks, like the one below, but they all result in a 404 when accessing /car/<vin>.

location ~ ^/car/(.*)$ {
    root $document_root/car/
    index index.html;
}

What would be an appropriate location block?

Richard Smith · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-02 07:48:20Z

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Do you want to use a regular expression? The prefix location would also work as it matches any URI that begins with /car/. See this document for details.

For example:

location ^~ /car/ {
    try_files /car/index.html =404;
}

Using $document_root in the root statement may not work, and the index directive only works with URIs that end with a /. The try_files statement is probably the simplest solution. See this document for details.

answered May 2, 2020 at 7:48

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ExtendedInterlude Over a year ago

This works for me. I just had to add an if check to make sure it would only work for /car/<vin> and not something like /car/<vin>/wheels: if ($request_uri !~ "^/car/[A-Z0-9]+$") { return 404; }.

Richard Smith Over a year ago

You could use a regular expression location instead, but they are evaluated in order, so be aware of potentially conflicting locations elsewhere in the server block. For example: location ~ ^/car/[A-Z0-9]+$ { try_files /car/index.html =404; }

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