Static file serving only works if root is a subfolder under public
- by lulalala
I am trying to serve static cache files using nginx. There are index.html files under the rails_root/public/cache directory. I tried the following configuration first, which doesn't work:
root <%= current_path %>/public;
# $uri always contains one slash(the first slash but not the last)
try_files /cache$uri/index.html /cache$uri.html @rails;
This give error:
[error] 4056#0: *13503414 directory index of "(...)current/public/" is forbidden, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1"
I then tried
root <%= current_path %>/public/cache;
# $uri always contains one slash(the first slash but not the last)
try_files $uri/index.html $uri.html @rails;
And to my surprise this works. Why is it that I can do the latter not the former( since they point to the same location)
The permissions of the folders are:
775 public
755 cache
644 index.html
The thing is that my favicon sitting under public/ is served correctly:
# asset server
server {
listen 80;
server_name assets.<%= server_name %>;
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
charset utf-8;
root <%= current_path %>/public;
}
