How to serve specific static files with nginx?

Question

I have queries like /api/lang?lang=en which I want to serve with nginx as /server/i18n-angular/en.json. How can I do that?

I have the following directory structure:

/public/
/server/i18n-angular/en.json

I have the following configuration, but nginx says it is wrong to use index directive at that point.

server {
  root /public
  ...
  location /api/lang {
    if ($args ~* "\?lang=(.+)") {
      set $language $1;
      index ../server/i18n-angular/$language.json;
    }
  }
}

What directive should I use instead of index?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '15 at 18:39

6

I don't see that you need a separate location at all. A simple rewrite should do.

For instance:

server {
    rewrite /api/lang /server/i18n-angular/$arg_lang.json last;

answered Mar 16 '15 at 18:39

Michael Hampton

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Thx Michael for the answer. It turns out a simple /../server suffices for rewrite. I'll accept your answer in 6 minutes. – Barney Szabolcs Mar 16 '15 at 18:43
what does `last` mean? – YakovL Dec 15 '21 at 09:00

How to serve specific static files with nginx?

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