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Nginx alias still points to and loads from root directory

I have a django backend and react frontend.

I want to serve the react on / and use /admin, /api and /auth for Django. Here’s what I have in my Nginx.

upstream backend {
    server 127.0.0.1:8000;
}

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name x.x.x.x;
    root /home/user/folder/frontend;
    index index.html index.htm;

    # for serving static
    location /static {
        alias /home/user/folder/backend/staticfiles;
    }

    # for serving react built files
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }
    
    # for everything django
    location ~^/(admin|api|auth) {
      include snippets/proxyinfo.conf;
      proxy_pass http://backend;
    }
}

With the above, the expected behavior is

  • / uses the default root folder, /home/user/folder/frontend and loads the built index files from react accordingly
  • /(admin|api|auth) points to django
  • /static loads static files saved in the /home/user/folder/backend/staticfiles folder.

So not sure why when I hit example.com/static/myfile.css, Nginx is going to /home/user/folder/frontend/static/myfile.css

I’d expect none of the above configuration says that’s what it should do, so what magic is going on?

I thought this answer was self explanatory enough, yet Nginx keeps doing whatever it likes.

I’m using nginx/1.18.0 (if that matters)

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Answers


  1. 0

    Try adding root inside the location / directive too.

    Like this:

    upstream backend {
    server 127.0.0.1:8000;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name x.x.x.x;
    root /home/user/folder/backend/staticfiles;

    # for serving static
    location /static {
        alias /home/user/folder/backend/staticfiles;
    }

    # for serving react built files
    location / {
        root /home/user/folder/frontend;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
    }

    # for everything django
    location ~^/(admin|api|auth) {
      include snippets/proxyinfo.conf;
      proxy_pass http://backend;
    }
}

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  2. 0

    from ngix documentation here, it seems you are missing a / at the end of your paths. this trailing / can cause a lot of pain in many languages to be the root cause of many errors.

    please give it a try like this:

    # for serving static
    location /static/ {
        alias /home/user/folder/backend/staticfiles/;
    }
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