Change NGINX configuration to look for relative paths

Question

I was wondering how I could get NGINX to look for files that are essentially out of the root value. This is how my nginx.conf looks like within server

 server {

    listen       80;

    server_name  localhost;

        root   /home/parallels/Downloads/nginx/rickshaw/examples;







location /all {

    alias /home/parallels/Downloads/nginx/rickshaw/examples

    try_files $uri $uri/ /sample.html /sample.htm;

    }





    #error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;

    location = /50x.html {

        root   html;

    }

 }

I have a HTML file in rickshaw/examples that is calling on a javascript file that is located in

/home/parallels/Downloads/nginx/rickshaw/javascript/charts.js

by going like

src="../javascript/charts.js

. I tried using alias but that didn't really help. Any idea on how I could change the configuration file so that it can pick up on a file in a different relative directory. I know I could just copy the file into the root path but I want to find out how I can configure NGINX so that it looks for relative paths.

Thank you, and let me know if you need any further information!

Answer 1

try adding a static path

    location /javascript/ {
            alias /home/parallels/Downloads/nginx/rickshaw/javascript/;
            autoindex off;
    }

and access it src="/javascript/charts.js"

Change NGINX configuration to look for relative paths

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