Maxim Dounin Wrote:
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> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 07:02:45AM -0400,
> alexscott wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> > I'm sorry to bother the forum with these kind of
> questions, but I simply
> > can't figure out what I'm doing wrong here:
> >
> > When I access sub.domain.net/ I still get the
> 502 error instead of being
> > served from the /somefolder/stuff folder?....
> >
> > server {
> > listen 80;
> > server_name sub.domain.net;
> >
> > location = / {
> > root /somefolder/stuff;
> > index index.html index.htm;
> >
> > }
> >
> > location / {
> >
> > return 502;
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
>
> Detailed explanation is given here:
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.h
> tml#simple_php_site_configuration
>
> In short: request to "/" is internally redirected
> to
> "/index.html", and then handled in "location /".
> Try this
> instead:
>
> root /somefolder/stuff;
>
> location = / {
> index index.html index.htm;
> }
>
> location = /index.html {
> internal;
> }
>
> location = /index.htm {
> internal;
> }
>
> location / {
> return 502;
> }
>
> Maxim Dounin
>
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You can also do this without adding new locations by using try_files instead of index.

root /somefolder/stuff;

location = / {
try_files /index.html /index.htm =404;
}

location / {
return 502;
}