I'm trying to get Nginx to return a simple webpage, but always with an http status code of 403. For some reason, I just can't get it to work. I have two files in /var/www/html/:
- index.html
- photo.jpg
index.html displays some text along with photo.jpg
Here is my Nginx config:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
return 403;
}
error_page 404 /index.html;
error_page 403 /index.html;
location = /index.html {
allow all;
}
location = /photo.jpg {
allow all;
}
}
With this config as-is, both index.html and photo.jpg are displayed with a status of 200. If I remove the location
blocks for those two files, neither are displayed, but they have a status of 403.
My question is: How can I display the html file, along with the image, but just return a status of 403? I feel like I'm missing something simple.