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I am having hard time finding a solution. I have a Ubuntu 14.04 machine running NGINX. I have below 2 folders I would like to host.

/var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app1/home/index.html
/var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app2/index.html

I would like to open app1's index file when I go to "apphost.comp.ill.com/app1" and open app2's index file when I go to "apphost.comp.ill.com/app2".

I believe I need to edit "/etc/nginx/sites-available/apphost.comp.ill.com" to make it happen but I can't seem to figure out how. I tried multiple things, searched online but could not find any solution. Here is how my file looks like currently:

server {
 listen 80;
 listen [::]:80;

 root /var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app1/home; 
 index index.html index.htm home home.html;

 # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
 server_name apphost.comp.ill.com;

 location / 
 # First attempt to serve request as file, then
 # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
 try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
 # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
 # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
 

It works for app1 when I go to apphost.comp.ill.com. How can I make it so it works when I go to "apphost.comp.ill.com/app1" and also add app2 to work when I go to "apphost.comp.ill.com/app2".

Please help. Thanks

I tried this and it works:

server 
 listen 80;
 listen [::]:80;

 index index.html index.htm home home.html;

 # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
 server_name apphost.comp.ill.com;

 location /app1 
 # we need to use alias here to strip the "app1" from 
 # the requested path
 alias /var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app1/home;

 # First attempt to serve request as file, then
 # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
 try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
 # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
 # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
 
 location /app2 
 # we don't need an alias here because app2 matches the
 # directory structure
 root /var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/;

 # First attempt to serve request as file, then
 # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
 try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
 # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
 # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
 

I would recommend /app1 and /app2 without a leading slash because in my test browsing to .../app1 didn't work otherwise.

Documentation of the alias command: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#alias

Edit: This answer is wrong, because the part after "location" will be appended to the document root. (i.e. nginx tries to open the file /var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app1/home/app1/index.html) I should not have posted it without trying first, sorry.

Have you tried:

server 
 listen 80;
 listen [::]:80;

 index index.html index.htm home home.html;

 # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
 server_name apphost.comp.ill.com;

 location /app1/ 
 root /var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app1/home;
 # First attempt to serve request as file, then
 # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
 try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
 # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
 # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
 
 location /app2/ 
 root /var/www/apphost.comp.ill.com/app2;
 # First attempt to serve request as file, then
 # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
 try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
 # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
 # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules