Alias which works like in other web servers

[marc at corky.net]

Hi Igor,

I need mappings of complete directories as each directory contains many 
php scripts and these scripts may be added/removed with future versions.

Marc


Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 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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