Setting up different documentroot for subdirectory on nginx
Setting up different documentroot for subdirectory on nginx
Date Posted: 24-09-2017
Nginx is a fastest webserver when compared to apache. In this post, we are going to explain how to setup different documentroot for subdirectory. The maindomain documentroot will be /var/www/html and subdirectory folder documentroot /var/www/folder.
Prerequisites:
- Nginx Webserver. If nginx is not installed, follow the posts.
Implementation:
Let us assumes that the domain name is domain.tld. Incase if we followed previous post then documentroot will be /var/www/html and /var/www/folder will be new directory which we would like to setup for domain.tld/subdirectory.
Create or edit the nginx configuration file. The default file will be /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default. If your domain has different configuration file then you need to update the corresponding config file.
Add the below content under server section
vi /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default
location /subdirectory {
alias /var/www/folder;
}
Verify the syntax of nginx configutation.
nginx -t
Restart the nginx service
systemctl restart nginx
Create a file under /var/www/folder and upload a content to verify.
vi /var/www/folder/index.html
Test content from subdirectory
Access the subdirectory using domain name http://domain.tld/subdirectory/index.html
