Nginx serve files on specific location from specific folder-CodePudding

I want NGINX to serve serve files from a location within a server. As an example, I would like the url http://domain/ss/image.png to serve the file located within /home/data/screenshots/image.png

So far, I have attempted to use a regex in this manner

location ~ ^/ss/(.*) {
    root /home/data/screenshots;
    add_header content-type "image/png";
    try_files $1 /$1;
}

however it appears that this location is never reached, being handled by the location spefcified to / (which in my case is a redirect).

I am not flexible with renaming/changing any of the file structure of the project and want to achieve this result with just the NGINX config modification.

CodePudding user response：

As described by Richard's comment on the question, it appears that my regex approach was correct, however my issue was the usage of the try_files function.