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Hello!

On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 08:13:54AM -0500, Saint Michael wrote:

> Suppose that my default html file forn a location is xyz.html, but there
> are hundreds. What is the canonical way to specify that and only that file
> for a / {}.

Locations are for a given URI prefix, not for a particular file.
Locations define a configuration to be used for matching requests.
See http://nginx.org/r/location for the detailed description of
the location directive.

When mapping requests to the files, nginx simply concatenates the
document root, as defined by the "root" directive, and URI from
the requests. For example, given "/path/to/html" root and a request
to "/xyz.html", nginx will return the "/path/to/html/xyz.html" file.

If you want nginx to return only the particular file to all
requests matched by the location, the most simple approach would
be to use a rewrite (http://nginx.org/r/rewrite) to change the
URI:

location / {
rewrite ^ /xyz.html break;
}

Note though that this is not going to be a good solution to the
issues with likely non-existing files you are facing. Rather,
this will make such issues impossible to debug, and is generally
not recommended - unless you have good reasons to implement
something like this. Instead, I would recommend using normal
request processing and let nginx to normally return files under
the document root and reject requests to non-existing files.

Hope this helps.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/
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