在 nginx 上提供外部文件

Question

I want to deliver a external file from a nginx server, something like to wget a file and serve on try_files, something like this

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ http://externalurl.com/index.html;
}

Is that possible?

Answer 1

The try_files directive can only accept an internal URI as the last parameter.

However, you can also use a named location as the last parameter, and place your external URL there. See this document for details.

For example:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @redirect;
}
location @redirect {
    return 302 http://externalurl.com/index.html;
}