Rewriting nginx for pushState-URL's

Question

I am trying to get nginx to work with my pushState-based URI handling that backbone.js manages for me in an Javascript app.

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Answer 1

Here is what i did to my application. Every route ending with a '/' (except the root it self) will serve index.html :

  location ~ ^/.+/$ {
    rewrite .* /index.html last;
  }

You can also prefix your route :

Backbone.history.start({pushState: true, root: "/prefix/"})

and then :

  location ~ ^/prefix/ {
    rewrite .* /index.html last;
  }

Or define a rule for each case.