Nginx09-Root-and-Alias

Working with ROOT and ALIAS Directives

• In this case I am trying to host a static file server to serve my files in the file system.
• And I want this happen without affecting the current running webserver.
• For this I am commenting the root and index directives and providing 2 seperate location directives.

#        root /var/www/html/lltest1;
#        index index.html index.htm index.php;

• In the first location section I am specifying the directory root of the webserver.

        location / {
                root /var/www/html/lltest1/;
                index index.html index.htm index.php;
        }

• In the second location I am specifying my aliaas for hosting the file server.

        location /rhel7/ {
                alias /u01/yum/rhel7/;
                index index.html index.htm index.php;
                autoindex on;
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }