nginx: send all requests to a single html page
Solution 1:
I think this will do it for you:
location / {
try_files /base.html =404;
}
Solution 2:
Using just try_files
didn't work for me - it caused a rewrite or internal redirection cycle error in my logs.
The Nginx docs had some additional details:
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#try_files
So I ended up using the following:
root /var/www/mysite;
location / {
try_files $uri /base.html;
}
location = /base.html {
expires 30s;
}
Solution 3:
Your original rewrite should almost work. I'm not sure why it would be redirecting, but I think what you really want is just
rewrite ^ /base.html break;
You should be able to put that in a location or directly in the server.