Issue w/ nginx in hybrid static/php load balancer scenario

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:28:09PM -0500, Denis S. Filimonov wrote:

> I'd try something like the following:
> 
> location / {
>     if ($request_filename !~ "(\.php|/)$") {
>     	proxy_pass http://static-pool/website/htdocs/;
>     }
> }
> 
> set $dir_index index.php;
> 
> location ~ /$ {
> 	set $index_php $root$uri$dir_index;
> 	if (-f $index_php) {
> 		fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
> 		break;
> 	}
> 	proxy_pass http://static-pool/website/htdocs/;
> }
> 
> location ~ \.php$ {
>      fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
> }

There is no need of such spaghetti configuration:
all tests can be done via location regex and index directive.

> On Sunday 10 February 2008 18:41:18 Mike Javorski wrote:
> > I tried that (iirc). The issue is that location / is processed first
> > (since it's not a regex). but the regex doesn't seem to apply after
> > the index file options are tacked on the end.
> >
> > On Feb 10, 2008 12:14 PM, Kiril Angov <kupokomapa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Why don't you put
> > >
> > >  location ~ \.php$ {
> > >     fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
> > >  }
> > >
> > >
> > > before "location /" so that it can match first?
> > >
> > > Kupo
> > >
> > > On Feb 10, 2008 1:51 AM, Mike Javorski <mike.javorski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Thanks Denis. The problem w/ your solution is there is lots of
> > > > directories. I don't want to have to create entries for each. I
> > > > suppose I could to a regex for .*/$ but some of the directories have
> > > > index.html instead of index.php, and I need to support that as well
> > > >
> > > > :-(.
> > > >
> > > > Any other options/suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > - mike
> > > >
> > > > On Feb 9, 2008 10:42 PM, Denis F. Latypoff <denis at gostats.ru> wrote:
> > > > > Hello Mike,
> > > > >
> > > > > Sunday, February 10, 2008, 12:32:14 PM, you wrote:
> > > > > > I have nginx set up as a load balancer in front of two machines
> > > > > > running fastcgi/php, and nginx for static content. The desired goal
> > > > > > is to have all php pages (including the site index pages of
> > > > > > .*/index.php) processed by the fastcgi/php upstream, and everything
> > > > > > else provided by the static servers. The following is what I have
> > > > > > and what I believe should have worked, but it appears to run all
> > > > > > directory paths via the static rule, rather than the php rule which
> > > > > > matches the index.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > To sum up:
> > > > > > / -- via static system (WRONG)
> > > > > > /index.php -- via fastcgi/php system (RIGHT)
> > > > > > /blah/ -- via static system (WRONG)
> > > > > > /blah/index.php -- via fastcgi/php system (RIGHT)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > nginx version is 0.6.25, Help! :-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > tia,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - mike
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My Config File (the relevent bits anyway):
> > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http {
> > > > > >     upstream  static-pool {
> > > > > >         server  192.168.7.40:80;
> > > > > >         server  192.168.7.41:80;
> > > > > >     }
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     upstream php-fcgi-pool {
> > > > > >         server  192.168.7.40:7000;
> > > > > >         server  192.168.7.41:7000;
> > > > > >     }
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     server {
> > > > > >         listen  80;
> > > > > >         root    /website/htdocs;
> > > > > >         index   index.php;
> > > > > >         fastcgi_index   index.php;
> > > > > >         include     /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> > > > > >
> > > > > >         location / {
> > > > > >             proxy_pass http://static-pool/website/htdocs/;
> > > > > >         }
> > > > >
> > > > > +         location = / {
> > > > > +             fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
> > > > > +         }
> > > > >
> > > > > +         location = /blah/ {
> > > > > +             fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
> > > > > +         }
> > > > >
> > > > > >         location ~ \.php$ {
> > > > > >             fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
> > > > > >         }
> > > > > >     }
> > > > > > }
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > >  Denis                            mailto:denis at gostats.ru
> -- 
> Denis.
> 

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