try_files for alias

[Edho P Arief]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Edho P Arief<edhoprima at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/18 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 09:57:41AM +0700, Edho P Arief wrote:
>>
>>> How do I make this work?
>>>
>>> location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ { alias /home/someapp/root$1; try_files $uri
>>> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
>>>
>>> The try_files never catch the $uri (nor $1) and returns 500 (redirection cycle)
>>>
>>> Am I 'forced' to use error_page in this case?
>>>
>>> This works:
>>>
>>> location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ { alias /home/someapp/root$1; error_page 404
>>> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
>>>
>>> and without regex the error_page and try_files seem to be completely ignored:
>>> neither
>>>     location /~someapp/ { alias /home/someapp/root/; error_page 404
>>> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
>>> nor
>>>     location /~someapp/ { alias /home/someapp/root/; try_files $uri
>>> /~someapp/err404.htm; }
>>> works.
>>
>> If request is "/~someapp/one", then this location
>>
>>    location /~someapp/ {
>>        alias     /home/someapp/root/;
>>        try_files $uri   /~someapp/err404.htm;
>>    }
>>
>> will test /home/someapp/root/one existence.
>>
>> As to
>>
>>    location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ {
>>        alias /home/someapp/root$1;
>>        try_files $uri /~someapp/err404.htm;
>>    }
>>
>> this "alias" with captures is special case.
>> A "root" is always just prefix to URI and "try_files" tests "root$uri".
>> An "alias" without captures replaces location part in URI with
>> the "alias" value, and "try_files" tests "alias/modified_uri"
>> An "alias" with captures replaces a whole URI with the "alias" value,
>> and "try_files" tests "alias/$uri", and $uri is surpplus here.
>> You need just to pass empty value to "try_files":
>>
>>    location ~ /~someapp(.*)$ {
>>        alias /home/someapp/root$1;
>>        try_files ""  /~someapp/err404.htm;
>>    }
>>
>>
>
> I just noticed it doesn't work properly (bug?)
>                location ~ ^/\~([^/]+)(.*\.php)$ {
>                        alias /home/$1/public_html$2;
>                        try_files "" @404;
>                        include php_params;
>                }
>                location ~ ^/\~([^/]+)(.*)$ {
>                        alias /home/$1/public_html$2;
>                        try_files "" @404;
>                }
>
>
> php_params:
> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8000;
> fastcgi_index index.php;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
> include fastcgi_params;
>
> from phpinfo():
>
> _SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]  ^/\~([^/]+)(.*\.php)$
> _SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]  /~edho/
> _SERVER["DOCUMENT_URI"] ^/\~([^/]+)(.*\.php)$
>
> ...still in regex form?
>
> as for static file, it always returned with mime type of
> application/octet-stream ( http://pastebin.com/m7d2c8f6e )
>
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full config: http://pastebin.com/m2be37d60

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