nginx: send all requests to a single html page

Question

Using nginx, I want to preserve the url, but actually load the same page no matter what. I will use the url with History.getState() to route the requests in my javascript app. It seems like it should be a simple thing to do?

location / {
    rewrite (.*) base.html break;
}

works, but redirects the url? I still need the url, I just want to always use the same page.

Answer 1

I think this will do it for you:

location / {
    try_files /base.html =404;
}