Alias in Nginx Config

[APseudoUtopia]

2009/7/26 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:07:28PM -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote:
>
>> Hey list,
>>
>> How does one create an alias in nginx? Here's my setup:
>>
>> My web-root is /usr/local/www/main. It's a copy of a SVN repo, so I
>> cannot manually add any folders in there.
>> I want to make an alias from domain.com/wiki to /usr/local/www/wiki.
>> I've tried the following code:
>>
>> location = /wiki {
>> alias /usr/local/www/wiki;
>> }
>>
>> But this isn't working. nginx is returning a "404" error. Here's the
>> whole config for the server block:
>>
>> server {
>>     set $web_root /usr/local/www/main;
>>
>>     listen x.x.x.x:443 default accept_filter=httpready;
>>     server_name domain.tld;
>>     access_log /var/log/httpd/nginx.access.ssl.log main buffer=4k;
>>     root $web_root;
>>
>>     # www redirect
>>     if ($host ~* www\.(.*)) {
>>         rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.tld$1 permanent;
>>     }
>>
>>     ssl on;
>>     ssl_certificate /usr/local/etc/nginx/ssl.crt;
>>     ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/etc/nginx/ssl.key;
>>     ssl_ciphers -ALL:!ADH:!NULL:!aNULL:!eNULL:HIGH;
>>     ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
>>     ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
>>     ssl_verify_client off;
>>     ssl_verify_depth 1;
>>     ssl_session_cache shared:NGXSSL:1m;
>>     ssl_session_timeout 5m;
>>
>>     # Wiki
>>     location = /wiki/ {
>>         alias /usr/local/www/skittles_wiki/;
>>     }
>>
>>     location ~ .*\.php$ {
>>         try_files $uri /404.html;
>>         fastcgi_index index.php;
>>         fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off;
>>         fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
>>         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>>         fastcgi_read_timeout 10; # sec to wait for php-cgi to return data
>>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $web_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>>         include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>>     }
>> }
>
> Frist, this
>
>     # www redirect
>     if ($host ~* www\.(.*)) {
>         rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.tld$1 permanent;
>     }
>
> should be written as separate server:
>
> server {
>     server_name www.domain.tld;
>
>     rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.tld$1 permanent;
> }
>
> Second, "set" in
>
>     set $web_root /usr/local/www/main;
>     ...
>     root $web_root;
>     ...
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $web_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>
> is just waste of CPU cycles and should be changed to
>
>     root /usr/local/www/main;
>     ...
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>
> As to wiki, you need to omit "=":
>
>     location /wiki/ {
>         alias /usr/local/www/skittles_wiki/;
>     }
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>

Thanks for the quick reply Igor. However, the changes don't seem to
make any difference; I'm still getting the 404 error. After playing
around with my configuration, it seems to be related to the try_files
inside the "location ~ .*\.php$" block. Do you (or anyone else) know
of a way I can solve this? It's a big confusing.

Thanks.