Nginx alias vs root... what's the difference?

Find out what the difference is between the Nginx alias and root directives in a location block with a basic example.
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[@panchalhimself]

Dude your teaching method is really great. Straight to the point no Bullshit. Keep making these videos man..

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I really appreciate that! Thank you for watching

[@devn0n]

Bruh, the quality of this video is epic...even on 1.75 speed everything is still very much clear!!! Thanks man!!!

[@JohnGray-u7o]

Official nginx docs and ai model couldn't help but you did. Great content.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Much appreciated!

[@randomworld1]

Nice demo buddy. Learnt a fundamental difference.

[@10thcode]

Man, you saved my life. Thanks

[@imranhasan871]

hi Tony it is great information you provide. I can't understand this topic for few days. but now I can understand this topic very clearly. carry on god bless you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it was helpful!

[@ifebusolaogunbayo2823]

Thank you Tony this was very helpful!

[@LryuzakiLN]

Hi Tony, could you please make a video on custom error pages? Like for example if I have a 404 error from a request the nginx should display my custom 404 error page and 500,502 etc some other custom page. Thanks!

[@hoale9689]

This video is so informative.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks!

[@henrique1625]

thank you, that was actually helpfull

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad it helped!

[@giusti4612]

So did I understand this corrcetly lets assume I have a folder with 3 subfolders A, B, D To make the folder D avilable under /C for exmaple I would simply do location /C/ { alias /T/; } Do I need to define the /T/ location iteself?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

To make the folder D available at example.com/C, you would do: location /C { alias /D; } ...assuming your T is a typo and should be D

[@ebiscaia]

Thanks, mate Again spot on

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Glad to help

[@rahulpardeshi56]

Hey I am following same steps but getting 404 not found... What could be the reason please help

[@ahmetozturk5178]

You helped me a lot thank you

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You're welcome!

[@rahulpardeshi56]

Hi it's great video.... What if I don't want to mention index.html in browser path is there any way and I am getting 404 page not found error also😊

[@kemaldursun8192]

thank u so much

[@TonyTeachesTech]

You are most welcome

[@guneshpatil]

I am faced with a challenge with nginx config actually. - hosting grafana and influx in Docker on a Ubuntu instance - served on 2 different ports - machine is hosted on aws with a security group allowing 443 via our vpn now I wish to serve those on server/influx and server/grafana respectively. can anyone help me solve this?

[@indian3960]

could you please make that same thing for the website also? I mean, I have a website called Site1.com and I want to make the exact same website, that is called Site2.com Now whenever I upload or changes anything in SIte1.com it will automatically see from Site2.com also I also want to know how torrent websites make the same proxy websites.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

While this is possible, I would highly suggest not to do this, especially if you would like your website to rank in organic search results developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/duplicate-content Do you have a good reason for doing this?

[@indian3960]

See Tony, torrent websites get a lot of DMCA strikes then Google removes it. But you just search on google you see dozens of websites showing in results. So I just want to know how they make these. That's it. For educational purposes only.

[@fox-99998]

Will the alias thing still work if you remove the root in the other location?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Yes, it will still work

[@tiktacktoes]

hi, and thank you for the information. i tried the root and alias by making an index.html in a directory /root/git/user/web. However, when i tried to open it shows the 404 not found error. how can i fix this? thankyou

[@rahulpardeshi56]

Getting same error

[@m4ynor]

Just thanks! 😏

[@Monstajamsofficial]

Could you do a video of how to upgrade ubuntu server from 18.04 to 20.04. Thanks 😊

[@TonyTeachesTech]

That's a great idea that I'm actually not sure how to do right now. I will do some research first!

[@Monstajamsofficial]

@@TonyTeachesTech I can’t wait for the video 🥺