404 on nginx for a PATH

Question

I have a website (say https://test.somesite.com) served from a /var/www/mainSite folder using nginx. I have another website in https://test.somesite.com/CMS/ for which i have to keep another set of static files in /var/www/subSite

In my nginx config file i have below

root /var/www/mainSite;
 location / {
          if (!-e $request_filename){
          rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.html break;
         }
        }
location /CMS/ {
    if (!-e $request_filename){
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /subSite/index.html break;
    }
}

Though the mainSite works properly, i get a 404 when i hit /CMS/

In nginx logs i see, *544213 open() "/var/www/mainSite/subSite/index.html" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.31.77.145, server: test.somesite.com, request: "GET /CMS/ HTTP/1.1", host: "test.somesite.com"

Not able to get what is going wrong here. Can someone help me understand the issue? So that next time i am not doing the same :)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66059575/404-on-nginx-for-a-path

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