nginx path based routing-CodePudding

I would like to to route requests based on a path to two different Angular applications. So when i request http://example.com/admin is routes to one app http://example.com/client routes to the second app. I have the following config but all requests are always sent to the nginx default page. Configuration is as follows:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        server_name _;

        location /admin {
                root /home/ubuntu/apps/admin/;
                index index.html;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?$args;
        }

        location /client {
                root /home/ubuntu/apps/client;
                index index.html;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?$args;
        }
}

No other confs are in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and nginx.conf is default post install on Ubuntu. Any help is appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

It appears that you cannot use multiple root directives but instead need to use alias (Configure nginx with multiple locations with different root folders on subdomain). With that, I would still get 404s until I took off $args from the index.html. After that everything worked fine (don't ask how long it took to figure that out). Working config:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        server_name _;
        index index.html;

        location /admin {
                alias /home/ubuntu/apps/admin;
                try_files $uri /index.html =404;
        }

        location /client {
                alias /home/ubuntu/apps/client;
                try_files $uri /index.html =404;
        }
}

CodePudding user response：

You were using the wrong value for the root directive. In both locations the correct value for the root directive is /home/ubuntu/apps, which means you can simplify the configuration by using just one root directive by moving it into the server block.

Of course you can use the alias directive - but as the manual states :

When location matches the last part of the directive’s value ... it is better to use the root directive instead.

The other problem is that your try_files statements are pointing to the wrong index.html file.

For example:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    root /home/ubuntu/apps;

    location /admin {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /admin/index.html;
    }

    location /client {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /client/index.html;
    }
}

Note that server_name _; is not necessary - see the Server Names document.

Also, index index.html; is not necessary being the default value for the index directive.