Nginx location configuration (subfolders)

Question

lets say I've a path like:

/var/www/myside/ 

that path contains two folders... let's say /static and /manage

I'd like to configure nginx to have an access to:

/static folder on / (eg. http://example.org/) this folder has some .html files.

/manage folder on /manage (eg. http://example.org/manage) in this case this folder contains Slim's PHP framework code - that means the index.php file is in public subfolder (eg. /var/www/mysite/manage/public/index.php)

I've tried a lot of combinations such as

server {   listen 80;   server_name example.org;   error_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/error.log;   access_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/access.log;   root /var/www/mysite;    location /manage {     root $uri/manage/public;      try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;   }    location / {     root $uri/static/;      index index.html;   }    location ~ \.php {     try_files $uri =404;     fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;     include fastcgi_params;     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;     fastcgi_index index.php;     fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;   } } 

The / works correctly anyway manage doesn't. Am I doing something wrong? Does anybody know what should I change?

Matthew.

Answer 1

To access a path like /var/www/mysite/manage/public with a URI like /manage, you will need to use alias rather than root. See this document for details.

I am assuming that you need to run PHP from both roots, in which case you will need two location ~ \.php blocks, see example below. If you have no PHP within /var/www/mysite/static, you can delete the unused location block.

For example:

server {     listen 80;     server_name  example.org;     error_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/error.log;     access_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/access.log;      root /var/www/mysite/static;     index index.html;      location / {     }     location ~ \.php$ {         try_files $uri =404;         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;          include fastcgi_params;         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;     }      location ^~ /manage {         alias /var/www/mysite/manage/public;         index index.php;          if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^ /manage/index.php last; }          location ~ \.php$ {             if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }             fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;              include fastcgi_params;             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;         }     } } 

The ^~ modifier causes the prefix location to take precedence over regular expression locations at the same level. See this document for details.

The alias and try_files directives are not together due to this long standing bug.

Be aware of this caution in the use of the if directive.