id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
2019	location = / is very tricky	Дилян Палаузов		"After reading http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location I created a contiguration:
{{{
server {
  server_name a.local;
  root /a;
  location = / {
    root /b;
  }
}
}}}

My understanding from the documentation is, that calling http://a.local/z will return /a/z, but calling http://a.local/ will return /b/index.html.  This does not happen.  I changed the configuration to 
{{{
server {
  server_name a.local;
  root /a;
  location = /index.html {
    root /b;
  }
}
}}}
Now, if /a/index.html exists, calling http://a.local/ returns /b/index.html, but if /a/index.html does not exist, then /b/index.html is not returned.

The documentation at nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_index_module.html makes things even more complicated.  The value of the `index` directive is by default ""index.html"" and it seems impossible to delete the default value.  Having this into account (the `index`-directive always has a value), `location = /` never matches

• clarify how to change the `root` for the =/ request, when the file /index.html does not exist, but the request http://a.local/ is valid
• Unify the documentation for the `index` and `location` directives, say how to remove the value for `index` for a specific `server{}` and how to match exactly only the `server_name/` request."	defect	closed	minor		nginx-module	1.18.x	invalid	location		Linux 4.14.176	My browser is broken and I cannot paste text (Firefox under Wayland).