Dear Francis:
Thank you for your answers.
Here is the full configuration with reverse proxy, pagespeed,and lowercasing. It all
works well, but now that I incorporated removing the trailing slash it brought up new
issues: https://pastebin.com/keQ239D4. Let me know if you prefer that I post the configurations
in the post.
Here are the answers to your questions:
As stated before the "evil if" or try_files work well except when it comes to directories or folders.
>>>>For clarity: can you show the config you use, and one request that
>>>>Fuses that config, and the response that you get? And, in case it is not
>>>>Fobvious, can you show the response that you want instead?
This is with the "evil if" enable, I get the following response when it is a directory such as the blog directory:
curl -i http://example.com/blog/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:06:04 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Location: http://example.com/blog
Connection: keep-alive
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
curl -i http://example.com/blog
HTTP/1.1 301
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:06:48 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /blog/
Cache-Control: s-maxage=10
If I disable the "evil if" and try with try_files, I get this:
To answer your question:
>>Does the proxy_pass upstream
>>share the same filesystem as this nginx?
No, they do not share the same file system.
curl -i http://example.com/blog/
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:13:23 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 178
Location: http://example.com/blog
Connection: keep-alive
<html>
<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
curl -i http://example.com/blog
HTTP/1.1 301
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:13:30 GMT
Content-Length: 0
Connection: keep-alive
Location: /blog/
Cache-Control: s-maxage=10
