NGINX + Vue HTML mode config giving 404 - nginx

Question

I have a Vue app running inside an nginx:alpine container with a custom nginx config to deal with browser navigation (Vue Router's html mode).
The problem is that any path other than the root (/) is giving 404's, with error messages like:
2018/11/25 07:56:13 [error] 7#7: *2 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/home" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.17.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /home HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:4000"
I'm using a custom nginx config file that looks like this:
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Max-Age' 1728000;
add_header 'Content-Type' 'text/plain; charset=utf-8';
add_header 'Content-Length' 0;
return 204;
}
if ($request_method = 'POST') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
}
if ($request_method = 'GET') {
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers' 'DNT,User-Agent,X-Requested-With,If-Modified-Since,Cache-Control,Content-Type,Range';
add_header 'Access-Control-Expose-Headers' 'Content-Length,Content-Range';
}
}
location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
# Some basic cache-control for static files to be sent to the browser
expires max;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root html;
}
}
}
is there something wrong with my nginx.conf?

Answer 1

There are issues regarding using if inside a location block.
The try_files statement is not executed when the if ($request_method = 'GET') block is selected to process the request.
You can fix the problem by replacing the try_files statement with another if statement.
For example:
location / {
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^ /index.html last; }
if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') { ... }
if ($request_method = 'POST') { ... }
if ($request_method = 'GET') { ... }
}