How to set up a vhost to autoindex the files using nginx

Question

I just add a vhost in nginx.conf for autoindexing files like this:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name res.rickyzhang.me;
    root  /home/wwwroot/default/res;
    location = / {
        autoindex      on;
    }
    access_log  /home/wwwlogs/access_res.log  access;
}

i think this would work,but when i visit res.rickyzhang.me,it always give me a 400 response code,it means the request is invalid and can not be understood by the server,i am confused.Can anybody help me?Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not sure but try adding a try_files in it

location = / {
    autoindex      on;
    try_files $uri $uri/;
}

Answer 2

Just tried on one of my servers:

# nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.4.1
built by gcc 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC)

server {
    server_name  some_hostname;

    location = / {
        root   html;
        autoindex on;
#http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpAutoindexModule
#The request only reaches the ngx_http_autoindex_module when 
#the ngx_http_index_module did not find an index file.
        index  should_not_exist;
    }
}

works as expected

Answer 3

i don't know whether it is appropriate to answer myself.

yesterday,i checked my nginx.conf carefully,i really counldn't find anything wrong.the 400 response code gives me some clues,so i just changed the hostname from res to dw,others have not changed,it worked!

it really amaze me,i guess maybe res is a reserved word in nginx,but i search on google,there isn't anything related to this.