Rewriting nginx for pushState-URL's
I ended up going with this solution:
server { listen 80; server_name example.com; root /var/www/example.com; # Any route containing a file extension (e.g. /devicesfile.js) location ~ ^.+\..+$ { try_files $uri =404; } # Any route that doesn't have a file extension (e.g. /devices) location / { try_files $uri /index.html; }}This way, at least I still get proper 404 errors if a file isn't found.
Here is what i did to my application. Every route ending with a '/' (except the root it self) will serve index.html :
location ~ ^/.+/$ { rewrite .* /index.html last; }You can also prefix your route :
Backbone.history.start({pushState: true, root: "/prefix/"})and then :
location ~ ^/prefix/ { rewrite .* /index.html last; }Or define a rule for each case.
I managed it like this:
#set root and indexroot /var/www/conferences/video/;index index.html;#route all requests that don't serve a file through index.htmllocation / { if (!-e $request_filename){ rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break; }}