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Serve nginx's autoindex under different path

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BrainStone

I've run into the issue that I would like to enable nginx's autoindex for some directories but those also having their own index files.
So I was wondering if there was a way to make nginx serve it's autoindex page on a different path. Something like /path/to/dir/autoindex.html

I tried the following:

    location ~* ^/path/to/dir/autoindex.html$ {
        autoindex on;
        autoindex_format html; 

        try_files /path/to/dir/ =404;
    }

But that strangely just redirects me to /path/to/dir/ and shows me my default index page.

Additionally I would like to keep this for folders that don't have an index page, just so the path for the autoindex is always consitent.

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Tero Kilkanen
Please provide a concrete example of a request and what exactly it should serve. It is difficult to see which URL you want to request and what filesystem path autoindex you want to get returned.
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BrainStone
@TeroKilkanen `http://example.com/path/to/dir/autoindex.html` should server the auto index of `$webroot/path/to/dir`
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BrainStone

I found a pretty decent solution that just cleverly uses redirects and their order:

server {
    # listen directives etc...

    root /path/to/web/root/dir;

    # Autoindex only shows when nginx can't file its own index files
    index xxx;

    rewrite ^(?<path>.*)/autoindex\.html$ $path/           last;
    rewrite ^(?<path>.*)/$                $path/index.html last;

    autoindex on;

    # rest of server configuration...
}

Only downsite this has is that you can't really use the multiple different index files the index directive normally supports. try_files can also mess this up, as you need to make sure that for the <path>/ URI nginx can't find any files so it shows the autoindex.

Wouldn't recommend this on anything but a server or location that servers only static files.

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Tero Kilkanen

nginx internal rewrite might be applicable here:

location /path/autoindex.html {
    rewrite ^ /path/ last;
}

location /path {
    internal; # This location is only used for internal redirects

    autoindex on;

    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

location ~ ^/path {
    ... configure what you want to show with the path
}
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BrainStone
Well I was asking about having the auto index page on a different path than one ending in `/`. I know how to enable autoindex
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Tero Kilkanen
Ah, how silly of me. I updated the answer.
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BrainStone
Sadly that returns a 404 for every URI with `/path`. Changing the location to `location = /path/` fixes that part but `/path/autoindex.html` still returns a 404.
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Tero Kilkanen
I added a `location` block that handles external requests to `/path`.
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BrainStone
Still 404 for `/path/autoindex.html`
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BrainStone
Even changing the `try_files $uri $uri/ =404;` to `try_files $uri $uri/ =403;` still returns a 404, telling me that it doesn't seem to hit the other location block.
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