Can I alias all directory requests to a single file in nginx?
- by user749618
I'm trying to figure out how to take all requests made to a particular directory and return a json string without a redirect, in nginx.
Example:
curl -i http://example.com/api/call1/
Expected result:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:48:21 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:58:56 GMT
Server: nginx
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Content-Length: 38
Connection: keep-alive
{"logout": true}
Here's what I have so far in my nginx conf:
location ~ ^/api/(.*)$ {
index /api_logout.json;
alias /path/to/file/api_logout.json;
types { }
default_type "application/json; charset=utf-8";
break;
}
However, when I try to make the request the Content-Type doesn't stick:
$ curl -i http://example.com/api/call1/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:48:21 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:58:56 GMT
Server: nginx
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Content-Length: 38
Connection: keep-alive
{"logout": true}
Is there a better way to do this? How can I get the application/json type to stick?
