Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#656 closed defect (invalid)

Virtual locations with index

Reported by: https://stackoverflow.com/users/573152/bernard-rosset Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: nginx-core Version: 1.6.x
Keywords: Cc:
uname -a: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
nginx -V: nginx version: nginx/1.6.2
built by gcc 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/client_temp --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/proxy_temp --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/fastcgi_temp --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/uwsgi_temp --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/cache/nginx/scgi_temp --user=nginx --group=nginx --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-file-aio --with-http_spdy_module --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed' --with-ipv6

Description

When using the following configuration snippet:

location = / {
    index index.php;
}

location /index.php {
    return 200 "Index";
}

You do not need any file in the root directory since no content will ever be read from there.

However, if you do not have an index.php file existing, nginx won't internally redirect the request and will rather attempt at listing the directory (ending up with a 503 error by default).

If a location matches a requested file (either directly or using an - internal - redirection), that location should be used, hence I consider that a bug.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Maxim Dounin, 10 years ago

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

The "index.php" file is required to find out if there is an index file (and which one). If there are no index files, nginx will pass processing to other index modules - autoindex, random index and so on. See docs for details.

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