Syntax: | alias |
---|---|
Default: | — |
Context: | location |
Defines a replacement for the specified location. For example, with the following configuration
location /i/ { alias /data/w3/images/; }
on request of “/i/top.gif
”, the file /data/w3/images/top.gif
will be sent.
The path
value can contain variables, except $document_root
and $realpath_root
.
If alias
is used inside a location defined with a regular expression then such regular expression should contain captures and alias
should refer to these captures (0.7.40), for example:
location ~ ^/users/(.+\.(?:gif|jpe?g|png))$ { alias /data/w3/images/$1; }
When location matches the last part of the directive’s value:
location /images/ { alias /data/w3/images/; }
it is better to use the root directive instead:
location /images/ { root /data/w3; }
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