fastcgi, try_files, problems

[Tomasz Pajor]

Maxim Dounin wrote:

  

>> There is no /administrator/index.php file.
>> I want to simply separate the administrator backend, and serve it from  
>> the same machine as balancer, because i've got all the gallery photos on  
>> this machine.
>>     
>
> So there is no /disk0/vhosts/domain/public/administrator directory 
> at all, am I right?
>   
No there isn't.
>   
>> I'm migrating this from apache.
>>
>> .htaccess says:
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
>> RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
>> RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
>>     
>
> As far as I understand you basically need to pass everything to 
> fastcgi while rewriting everything that doesn't exist to 
> index.php?  Try something like this:
>
>     root /disk0/vhosts/domain/public;
>
>     fastcgi_index index.php;
>
>     location / {
>         try_files $uri $uri/ @fallback;
>         fastcgi_pass apps;
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>         ...
>     }
>
>     location @fallback {
>         fastcgi_pass apps;
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/index.php;
>         ...
>     }
>
>     location /administrator/ {
>         rewrite ^/administrator(.*) $1 break;
>         try_files $uri $uri/ @adminfallback;
>         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3000;
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
>         ...
>     }
>
>     location @adminfallback {
>         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:3000;
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/index.php;
>         ...
>     }
>
>   
It works flawlessly thank You Maxim!