nginx location wildcard or inheritance for directories

Question

location /slides/*/ {
  autoindex on;
  charset utf-8;
}

does not work. how would I open all subdirectories under /slides/ to allow autoindex?

Have you tried location ~ /slides/*/ or location = /slides/*/? — Edgar Magallon, Oct 16 '22 at 20:37
Or location ~ /slides/*/*, location = /slides/*/* (adding * at the end of the path) — Edgar Magallon, Oct 16 '22 at 20:39
location ~ /slides/*/ does the job. can you add this as an answer for me to accept, please? — ivo Welch, Oct 17 '22 at 22:08

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '22 at 22:23

1

You have to specify the ~ for regex patterns:

location ~ /slides/*/ {
  autoindex on;
  charset utf-8;
}

answered Oct 17 '22 at 22:23

Edgar Magallon

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '22 at 09:31

0

There is no location wildcard in Nginx and it is not necessary.

location /slides/ matches URLs which begin with /slides/ and this includes all paths and directories below it unless another location takes precedence.

See how Nginx processes a request and the location directive.

answered Oct 17 '22 at 09:31

Richard Smith

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maybe this is how it should be, but I don't think this was the case here. I only had autoindex on, never turned off anywhere else. but location ~ /slides/*/ worked. – ivo Welch Oct 17 '22 at 22:09

nginx location wildcard or inheritance for directories

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