Adding location to Nginx server configuration

Adding locations to Nginx server configuration. The following command shows how to add locations on nginx web server virtual host configurations.  

 

Edit artofcse.local.conf and add the following codes:

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        server_name artofcse.local www.artofcse.local;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;
        root /var/www/artofcse.com;


        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        }

        location /images {
                autoindex on;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
        location = /404.html {
                internal;
        }
}

 

Create 404.html page:

echo "404 page not found" > /var/www/artofcse.com/404.html

 

Test Nginx configuration:

nginx -t

 

Restart Nginx Server:

systemctl reload nginx