Order of location blocks matters

[tfarkas86]

I have a Shiny Server deployment where I want a single app to be served at the base url, and a directory to served at another location. I discovered that the directory app will fail unless their location block is above the base url location. Is this noted in the documentation somewhere? Is there a more canonical approach?

This fails to load apps in more_apps:

{
server {
listen 3838;
location / {
app_dir /srv/shiny-server/main-app/;
log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
}
location /more-apps {
site_dir /srv/shiny-server/more-apps/;
log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
directory_index on;
}
}

Whereas this succeeds:

{
server {
listen 3838;
location /more-apps {
site_dir /srv/shiny-server/more-apps/;
log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
directory_index on;
}
location / {
app_dir /srv/shiny-server/main-app/;
log_dir /var/log/shiny-server;
}
}