Alias in Nginx Config

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 04:47:26PM -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote:

> 2009/7/26 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:07:28PM -0400, APseudoUtopia wrote:
> >
> >> Hey list,
> >>
> >> How does one create an alias in nginx? Here's my setup:
> >>
> >> My web-root is /usr/local/www/main. It's a copy of a SVN repo, so I
> >> cannot manually add any folders in there.
> >> I want to make an alias from domain.com/wiki to /usr/local/www/wiki.
> >> I've tried the following code:
> >>
> >> location = /wiki {
> >> alias /usr/local/www/wiki;
> >> }
> >>
> >> But this isn't working. nginx is returning a "404" error. Here's the
> >> whole config for the server block:
> >>
> >> server {
> >>     set $web_root /usr/local/www/main;
> >>
> >>     listen x.x.x.x:443 default accept_filter=httpready;
> >>     server_name domain.tld;
> >>     access_log /var/log/httpd/nginx.access.ssl.log main buffer=4k;
> >>     root $web_root;
> >>
> >>     # www redirect
> >>     if ($host ~* www\.(.*)) {
> >>         rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.tld$1 permanent;
> >>     }
> >>
> >>     ssl on;
> >>     ssl_certificate /usr/local/etc/nginx/ssl.crt;
> >>     ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/etc/nginx/ssl.key;
> >>     ssl_ciphers -ALL:!ADH:!NULL:!aNULL:!eNULL:HIGH;
> >>     ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
> >>     ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
> >>     ssl_verify_client off;
> >>     ssl_verify_depth 1;
> >>     ssl_session_cache shared:NGXSSL:1m;
> >>     ssl_session_timeout 5m;
> >>
> >>     # Wiki
> >>     location = /wiki/ {
> >>         alias /usr/local/www/skittles_wiki/;
> >>     }
> >>
> >>     location ~ .*\.php$ {
> >>         try_files $uri /404.html;
> >>         fastcgi_index index.php;
> >>         fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off;
> >>         fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
> >>         fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> >>         fastcgi_read_timeout 10; # sec to wait for php-cgi to return data
> >>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $web_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> >>         include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> >>     }
> >> }
> >
> > Frist, this
> >
> >     # www redirect
> >     if ($host ~* www\.(.*)) {
> >         rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.tld$1 permanent;
> >     }
> >
> > should be written as separate server:
> >
> > server {
> >     server_name www.domain.tld;
> >
> >     rewrite ^(.*)$ https://domain.tld$1 permanent;
> > }
> >
> > Second, "set" in
> >
> >     set $web_root /usr/local/www/main;
> >     ...
> >     root $web_root;
> >     ...
> >         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $web_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> >
> > is just waste of CPU cycles and should be changed to
> >
> >     root /usr/local/www/main;
> >     ...
> >         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
> >
> > As to wiki, you need to omit "=":
> >
> >     location /wiki/ {
> >         alias /usr/local/www/skittles_wiki/;
> >     }
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply Igor. However, the changes don't seem to
> make any difference; I'm still getting the 404 error. After playing
> around with my configuration, it seems to be related to the try_files
> inside the "location ~ .*\.php$" block. Do you (or anyone else) know
> of a way I can solve this? It's a big confusing.

What is in error_log ?


-- 
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/