Configure nginx vhosts by path - nginx

Question

I want to serve my projects by first item in the path, for example http://example.com/projectname should serve a project in /usr/share/nginx/html/projectname.
This is what my configurations look like:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
rewrite ^/(.*) https://example.com/$1 permanent;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
ssl_certificate "/etc/ssl/XX.pem";
ssl_certificate_key "/etc/ssl/XX.key";
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
server_name example.com/$1 www.example.com/$1;
access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;
location /projectname {
root /usr/share/nginx/html/projectname ;
index index.html;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?$args;
}
}
Observation:
When i visit the configured domain it routes to nginx defualt page instead of displaying the expected project.

Answer 1

3 Changes:
Instead of rewrite, do return 301
In second server block, don't have /$1 at the end of server_names
remove index index.html from location /projectname block
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
return 301 https://example.com/$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
ssl_certificate "/etc/ssl/XX.pem";
ssl_certificate_key "/etc/ssl/XX.key";
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers 'EECDH+AESGCM:EDH+AESGCM:AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH';
server_name example.com www.example.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx.vhost.error.log;
location /projectname {
root /usr/share/nginx/html/projectname ;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?$args;
}
}
Try this and it should work.

Answer 2

1: Open sudo vi /etc/hosts file in you Linux machine
2: 127.0.0.1 example.com www.example.com
3: Save and exit.