Nginx return file for path

Question

I want Nginx to return r.json file for path example.com/r/ What I tried:

location /r/ {
    alias /home/user/media/json/r.json;
}

But all that didn't work. I've got 500 with message:

/home/user/media/json/r.jsonindex.html is not a directory

Answer 1

  location = /r/ {
    try_files r.json =404;
  }

Answer 2

Use the index directive to name r.json as the default filename within that location:

location /r/ {
    index r.json;
    alias /home/user/media/json/;
}