Getting unknown directive "root" when trying to add configuration to serve content from specific directory about ingress-nginx

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[longwuyuan]

/remove-kind bug

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[Velan987]

I am trying to configure nginx to provide content from specific directory, i.e If i invoke root path (/) I need to show index.html.
while configuring server-snippet for this I am getting below error.

Below is my ingress yaml file

apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: my-ingress
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/server-snippet: |
      location =/{
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
      }
spec:
  ingressClassName: nginx
  rules:
  - host: test.com 
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /test
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: test-svc
            port:
              number: 80

For this ingress I am getting below error
Unknown directive "root" in /tmp/nginx/nginx-cfg3003441674:276
nginx: [emerg] unknown directive "root" in /tmp/nginx/nginx-cfg3003441674:276
nginx: configuration file /tmp/nginx/nginx-cfg3003441674 test failed.

I also went into nginx ingress controller pod, and added below snippet

 location =/{
        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
      }

Getting same error (Unknown directive "root") while reloadin nginx using "nginx -s reload"

[longwuyuan]

At the very least, you should look at the questions that are asked in the new bug report template.

You have not answered any of the questions asked in the new issue template so readers have to guess what the heck is going on here, to begin with.

And then you don't care to explain why you are talking about providing content from inside the controller. The controller has nothing to do providing your content from inside the controller pod

Once you have edited the issue description here and answered all the questions that are asked in a new bug report template, please write a detailed description of why you are trying to provide content from inside the ingress-controller pod. This project is a ingress controller so look at the documentation and write proper issue description that is related to some feature mentioned in the documentation https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/

After that you can re-open the issue so that readers can make comments based on useful data posted here.

/close

[k8s-ci-robot]

@longwuyuan: Closing this issue.

In response to this:

At the very least, you should look at the questions that are asked in the new bug report template.

You have not answered any of the questions asked in the new issue template so readers have to guess what the heck is going on here, to begin with.

And then you don't care to explain why you are talking about providing content from inside the controller. The controller has nothing to do providing your content from inside the controller pod

Once you have edited the issue description here and answered all the questions that are asked in a new bug report template, please write a detailed description of why you are trying to provide content from inside the ingress-controller pod. This project is a ingress controller so look at the documentation and write proper issue description that is related to some feature mentioned in the documentation https://kubernetes.github.io/ingress-nginx/

After that you can re-open the issue so that readers can make comments based on useful data posted here.

/close

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