possible fastcgi_params bug or undocumented feature

[Rob Schultz]

The 2nd fastcgi_pass was a miss type. It is the same port as the other.

Rob Schultz

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Rob Schultz <rschultz7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>        Today i was configuring nginx to "act" more like apache when using
> https (Apache sets the fastcgi paramater HTTPS to on and this is how
> phpmyadmin detects if you are using https or not) Well i only wanted
> this paramater to be on my https portion of the server so i added it
> right below my fastcgi_pass directive.
> http {
>         include         /etc/nginx/mime.types;
>         include         /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>
> rest of regular config....
>
>         ##ssl portion
>         server {
>                 listen          443;
>                 server_name     domain.com www.domain.com;
>
>                 ssl on;
>                 ssl_certificate         /etc/ssl/nginx/server.crt;
>                 ssl_certificate_key     /etc/ssl/nginx/server.key;
>
>                 access_log      /var/log/nginx/
> domain.com.ssl_access_log main;
>                 error_log       /var/log/nginx/
> domain.com.ssl_error_log info;
>
>                 root /var/www/domain.com/htdocs;
>
>                 location ~ \.php$ {
>                         fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8026;
>                         fastcgi_param  HTTPS    on;
>                         fastcgi_index   index.php;
>                 }
>
>                 location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
>                         access_log   off;
>                         expires      30d;
>                 }
>         }
> }
>
> reloaded the configuration file and hit refresh on a php page
> displaying phpinfo()  and i get the "No Input file". So after playing
> around i ended up having to add the include directive in my location ~
> \.php$ section like so
>                 location ~ \.php$ {
>                         fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8132;
>                        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>                         fastcgi_param  HTTPS    on;
>                         fastcgi_index   index.php;
>                 }
>
>
>
> So it is looking like adding a fastcgi_param directive is clearing out
> the http section for them.
> Also the English wiki states "Directives not set are inherited from
> the outer level. " so that is why i am thinking this is a bug.
>
> I am currently using the 0.6.28 and noticed a new release but by the
> changelog doesn't seem like anything changed in the fastcgi module.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rob Schultz
>
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