nginx not sending DOCUMENT_ROOT to PHP?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:50:52AM -0600, Joe Shang wrote:

> Figured it out.
> 
> You need to set root within the server directive, I had it set under location.

You may set it in server level or inside "location ~ \.php$".

> Joe
> 
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Joe Shang <joe.shang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am using:
> >
> >                location ~ \.php$ {
> >                        fastcgi_pass unix:/home/nginx/phpcgi/vidiscri;
> >                        fastcgi_index index.php;
> >                        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> > /home/vidiscri/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;
> >                        fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
> >                        include conf/fastcgi_params;
> >                }
> >
> >
> > To send PHP over to be parsed by php-fpm , but the problem is,
> > DOCUMENT_ROOT variable isn't being sent to PHP it keeps saying:
> >
> > _SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]        /usr/local/nginx/html
> >
> > Any specific reason why its doing this?
> >
> > You can check for yourself here:
> >
> > http://vidiscript.aptget.com/phpinfo.php
> >
> > conf/fastcgi_params has:
> >
> >
> > fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
> > fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
> > fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
> > fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
> >
> > fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
> > fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
> > fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
> > fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
> > fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
> >
> > fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
> > fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
> >
> > fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
> > fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
> > fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
> > fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
> > fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
> >
> > # PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
> > fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
> >

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