Alias which works like in other web servers

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 04:57:07PM +0100, marc at corky.net wrote:

> Hi Igor,
> 
> Thanks for your quick reply.
> 
> I tried location ^~ /blog but that produced a similar result, php-fcgi 
> returned 'No input file specified' as it was not able to open the path 
> provided to it by nginx.
> 
> I also have the following block in order to force http authentication on 
> the /blog/wp-admin directory:
> 
> location /blog/wp-admin {
>       alias   /var/www/wordpress/wp-admin;
> 
>       auth_basic "adm"; 
>       auth_basic_user_file conf/nginx.user;
>            
>       rewrite ^.+?(/.*\.php)$ $1 break;
> }  
> 
> Is there a way to put the auth stuff into the same /blog location ?
> 
> I would very much want to have a few "true" Aliases in my config rather 
> than relying on symlinks, which is not really the clean/correct way to 
> do this IMHO.  Let's just say that for the sake of argument I need the 
> following aliases for the same vhost:  /blog /munin /nagios -- all of 
> which point to folders that are outside the document root of that 
> vhost.   I would also like to password protect each of these aliases.

Could you describe all mappings that you need ? i.e.:

/blogs/dir/some.php -> //var/www/wordpress/some.php
etc.

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >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).
> >>    
> >
> >Could you describe all mappings that you need ?
> >
> >
> >  
> 
> 

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