fastcgi, try_files, problems

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:48:27PM +0100, Dick Middleton wrote:

> Tomasz Pajor wrote:
>
> > I have a problem with proper configuration of my page.
>
> Coo!  Let me have a go.  I'm brand new to nginx so just testing my  
> reading ability :)
>
>> Don't know what am I doing wrong, but the debug says that when i go to  
>> http://domain.com/administrator it uses the location /administrator but 
>> then it's redirected to /index.php and it uses location /, so not as I  
>> intended.
>
> Is it the order of location directives:   location / satisfies  
> /administrator before location /administrator
>
> So change the order in config - am I right?

No.  For normal location (not regex) order doesn't matter, nginx 
always uses most specific (i.e. longest match).

See http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpCoreModule#location for 
details.

Maxim Dounin