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Docker Nginx files in location shows a 404 error

I want to place a text file into a folder to see if it can be accessed from the public via this url:

www.example.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/test.txt

Internally, the text file should be placed in this directory:

/var/www/certbot

This is my nginx configuration:

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name www.example.com;
    server_tokens off;
    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";

    error_log /var/log/nginx/sdr-fe-nginx-error.log info;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/sdr-fe-nginx-access.log;

    ignore_invalid_headers off;
    underscores_in_headers on;

    # Allow larger than normal headers
    large_client_header_buffers 4 64k;
    proxy_buffers         8 16k;  # Buffer pool = 8 buffers of 16k
    proxy_buffer_size     16k;    # 16k of buffers from pool used for headers
    

    location /.well-known/acme-challenge/ {
        allow all;
        root /var/www/certbot;
    } 
}

This is my declaration in my docker-compose file:

nginx:
    environment:
      - TZ=Asia/Singapore
    image: nginx:latest
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - "443:443"
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks: 
    - ${NETWORK}
    volumes:
      - ./:/etc/nginx/conf.d
      - "/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro"
      - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro"
      - ./data/certbot/conf:/etc/letsencrypt
      - ./data/certbot/www:/var/www/certbot

So far this only results in a 404 error when i access the url.

How can I properly make that /var/www/certbot folder public?

EDIT: My nginx does not generate any error logs in the specified log directory. The 404 error that shows up is an nginx error.

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  1. 0

    I think what you are looking for is alias not root.
    Just replace

    root /var/www/certbot;

    with

    alias /var/www/certbot/;

    Be careful about the trailing slash. It should be there.
    You can find more in here.

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  2. 0

    You need to remove the path before searching the root directory. Your location block should look something like this:

    location /.well-known/acme-challenge {
    rewrite ^/.well-known/acme-challenge(.*) $1 break;
    root /var/www/certbot;
}
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