Hello!

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 01:35:31PM -0400, ericreiss wrote:

> Just getting started with NGINX and reading the Beginner's Guide.
>
> The guide says to create two directories:
> /data/www
> /data/images
>
> Then goes on to tell you to setup two locations:
> location / {
> root /data/www;
> }
>
> and
>
> location /images/ {
> root /data;
> }
>
> Then says the results should look like this:
>
> server {
> location / {
> root /data/www;
> }
>
> location /images/ {
> root /data;
> }
> }
>
> Isn't the second location root path incorrect? It is missing the /images
> subfolder.

It is correct. The "root" directive specifies a path to be added
to a request URI, and a request to "/images/foo" will map to
"<root>/images/foo". Hence "/data" is correct value for the root
if you want to return "/data/images/foo" in a response.

See http://nginx.org/r/root for details.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/

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