Nginx serving a directory as an alias

Question

I am trying to use ResourceSpace as an alias on Nginx. The page scripts load well but static files do not load. Access to subdirectories gives an error of undefined index

eximmanger loads with all scripts plus static files while resourcespace fails to load static files, loading only the scripts

This is my config

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name myserver.com www.myserver.com;
    server_name_in_redirect off;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/myserver.access_log main;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/myserver.error_log info;

    location /resourcespace { 
        alias /var/www/html/ResourceSpace/;

     }


    location /eximmanager { 
        alias /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u/;

     }

    location /100/ { 
           rewrite ^ http://100.myserver permanent;

     }




   location ~ ^/eximmanger/(.+\.*)$ {
      alias /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u/$1;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  $request_filename;

      # From fastcgi_params
fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u; # <-- Changed
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
    }


   location ~ ^/resourcespace/(.+\.*)$ {
      alias /var/www/html/ResourceSpace/$1;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  $request_filename;

      # From fastcgi_params
fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      /var/www/html/ResourceSpace; # <-- Changed
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
    }


    root /var/www/html/myserver;
    index index.php;
    # Support Clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs
    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
    }

    index index.php index.html index.htm default.html default.htm;
    # deny running scripts inside writable directories
    location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ {
            return 403;
            error_page 403 /403_error.html;
    }



    location ~ .*.php$ {
        #include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;


    }

    # caching of files 
    location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ {
            expires 1y;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ {
            expires 14d;

Answer 1

I found out that the problem was not related to nginx at all , but to the ResourceSpace $baseurl directive. In the directive I had mixed up $baseurl = 'http://resourcespace.myserver.com'; and $baseurl = 'http://myserver.com/resourcespace'; . So watch out for that if you having similar problems.