I am trying to get nginx to work with my pushState-based URI handling that backbone.js manages for me in an Javascript app.
Right now accessing URI's with one level, eg. example.com/users works well, but not two-level or deeper URI's, such as example.com/users/all, which is mentioned in the Backbone documentation:
For example, if you have a route of /documents/100, your web server must be able to serve that page, if the browser visits that URL directly
So, being far from acquainted with nginx's rewrite options, I am still sure that I can do something like rewrite ^ /index.html; to redirect everything to my index.html, but loosing out on any eventual static files (images, javascript & css) stored on the same server which I need to be able to access.
So what should I do instead with the below shown, current configuration, to make this work?
server { listen 80; server_name example.com; location / { root /var/www/example.com; try_files $uri /index.html; }}