How to not need a .dotted file path in nginx configuration-CodePudding

I'm trying to serve m AppLink for google association services. The following works:

location /.well-known/assetlinks.json {
    root /var/www/static/google-association-service/;
    types { } default_type "content-type: application/json";
}

Provided I have the correct file placed at

/var/www/static/google-association-service/.well-known/assetlinks.json

The URI is what it it is, Google gets to decide that, but I'd rather not have it resolve to a hidden file at the bottom of a directory where the next guy wonders why the directory is even there because he forgot to ls with a '-a'. Is there a way to make it so I can map this URI to something like:

/var/www/static/google-association-service/assetlinks.json # omit the hidden sub directory

(I've tried understanding the difference between root and alias, but I'm not seeing how alias would help me here)

CodePudding user response：

You can use try_files to find the specific file you want.

For example:

location = /.well-known/assetlinks.json {
    root /var/www/static/google-association-service;
    try_files /assetlinks.json =404;
}

Or:

location = /.well-known/assetlinks.json {
    root /var/www/static;
    try_files /google-association-service/assetlinks.json =404;
}

The concatenation of the root value and the try_files parameter form the path to the file.

CodePudding user response：

alias basically gives you the possibility to serve a file with another name (e.g. serve a file named foo.json at location /.well-known/assetlinks.json). Even if this is not required in your case I would favor this config, as it is easily understandable:

location = /.well-known/assetlinks.json {
    alias /var/www/static/google-association-service/assetlinks.json;
}

Note that the = is required to not match locations like /.well-known/assetlinks.json1111.