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

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:56:07PM -0800, Mike Javorski wrote:

> I've gotten things to work OK w/ the following. It means I can't have
> more than one type of directory index, but it's better than nothing.
> Thanks for the suggestions all, and Igor, thanks for nginx period :-).

For local static files nginx can try several index files.
However, there is no way to learn existent index files on remote host.

> - mike
> 
>    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 ~ (\.php|/)$ {
>            fastcgi_pass    php-fcgi-pool;
>        }


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