Actually, Nginx are way ahead of you. Here's the way to handle that. location = / { [ configuration A ] } location / { [ configuration B ] } To learn

Actually, Nginx are way ahead of you. Here's the way to handle that. location = / { [ configuration A ] } location / { [ configuration B ] } To learn more about this, I recommend http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html The Nginx docs are not always great but they are far more correct than most blog posts about Nginx so that is why I have turned to use only the official docs when I have a question about how to do something with Nginx.