Alias which works like in other web servers

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:18:51AM +0100, Just Marc wrote:

> I have a website and a wordpress blog under /blog/   The blog scripts 
> are sitting in a different directory, this is the conf:
> 
> server {
>   listen x.x.x.x;
>   root   /var/www/site/;
> 
>   location /blog {
>       alias   /var/www/wordpress;
> 
>       rewrite ^.+?(/.*\.php)$ $1 last;
>       rewrite ^ /index.php last;
>   }
> 
>   location / {
>       rewrite '^/([^\.]*)\.html$'  /index.php?p=$1 last;
>   }
> 
>   location ~ .php$ {
>       fastcgi_pass   10.0.0.1:1026;
>       fastcgi_index  index.php;
>       include        conf/fastcgi.conf;
>   }
> 
> With this conf, a request to: /blog/wp-login.php is processed by the php 
> location resulting in a bad URL (nginx tries to open: 
> /var/www/site/blog/wp-login.php).
> 
> I tried a few things such as putting the fastcgi statements inside every 
> location {}  and while that works, it produces bad results as every 
> request within that location gets passed to fastcgi, including images, etc.
> 
> I found this thread 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.nginx.english/188/focus=189 but 
> unfortunately it was not answered.
> 
> Basically I'm looking to do a 'simple' Alias like in apache or 
> lighttpd.    How can I do this?

The "alias" is this simple command.

The "/blog/wp-login.php" is handled in "location ~ .php$".
You probably need:

   location ^~ /blog {


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