How to make Digital Access Pass sub directory (.../dap) to use http onn nginx web server, OS: Ubuntu? - ssl

Question

I have nginx web server installed and https domain. I want to make a sub-directory /dap in root folder to use http and exclude from ssl. Please guide me through this.
My /etc/nginx/sites-available virtual host file for this domain is as below,
# WPSINGLE FAST CGI NGINX CONFIGURATION
server {
listen 198.27.70.206:80;
server_name howtofightnow.com;
return 301 https://howtofightnow.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name howtofightnow.com;
ssl on;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/howtofightnow_com.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/server.key;
#listen 198.27.70.206:80;
#server_name howtofightnow.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/howtofightnow.com.access.log rt_cache;
error_log /var/log/nginx/howtofightnow.com.error.log;
root /var/www/howtofightnow.com/htdocs;
index index.php index.htm index.html;
location /zabbix {
if ($scheme ~ ^http:){
rewrite ^(.*)$ https://$host$1 permanent;
}
alias /usr/share/zabbix;
index index.php;
error_page 403 404 502 503 504 /zabbix/index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }
expires epoch;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass php;
}
location ~ \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico)$ {
access_log off;
expires 33d;
}
}
# Use Cached Or Actual File If They Exists, Otherwise Pass Request To WordPress
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ .php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php?args;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass php;
}
location /vma {
root /usr/local/vimbadmin/public ;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
location ~ .php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass php;
}
}
rewrite ^/index.php/register/thanks(.*) /register/thanks$1 permanent;
include /etc/nginx/common/locations.conf;
}

Answer 1

Simply add this location (/dap) to your http server section, plus add a separate root location, as following:
server {
listen 198.27.70.206:80;
server_name howtofightnow.com;
location / {
return 301 https://howtofightnow.com$request_uri;
}
location /dap/ {
# specific rules for this location go here
}
}