need help configuring this location directive

[dfelicia]

I've been reading about how nginx matches requests - most specific to
least, then regex in the order they are listed. For fastcgi, though, all
of the tutorials suggest something like:


location ~ \.php$ {
         try_files $uri =404;
         include fastcgi_params;
         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
         fastcgi_pass yada yada;
}

What if I want/need to run fastcgi from a location that nginx matches
before this regex, though? Do I have to repeat the whole fastcgi config
in that block, or is there a more elegant way?

For example:

    root /srv/http/example.com
    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }
    # /~user/private w/basic auth
    location ~ ^/~(.+?)/private(/.*)?$ {
        auth_basic "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file htpasswd;
        alias /home/$1/private_html$2;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        autoindex on;
    }
    # /~user
    location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ {
        alias /home/$1/public_html$2;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        autoindex on;
    }
    # serve static files directly
    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt)$ {
        access_log        off;
        expires           30d;
    }
    # I have no idea what this does
    location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
        return 403;
    }
   # fastcgi
    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_pass phpcgi;
    }

So in the above example, what if I want to serve php from ~/user ?

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,225187,225187#msg-225187