nginx: send all requests to a single html page

Question

Using nginx, I want to preserve the url, but actually load the same page no matter what. I will use the url with History.getState() to route the requests in my

Answer 1

The correct way would be:

location / {
    rewrite (.*) base.html last;
}

Using last will make nginx find a new suitable location block according to the result of rewriting.

try_files is also a perfectly valid approach to this problem.