try-files and Gallery3 rewriting

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 8 Jun 2011 22h43 WEST, mail at andreas-lehr.com wrote:

> Hiho,
>
> I am currently running gallery3 on nginx/php-fpm. Works like a charm
> so far.  But i'd like to get gallery3 also under the hood of
> try-files, but didn't get it running up to now.
>
> The working (and evil) if rewrite code looks like this:
>
> location /gallery3/ {
> if (!-e $request_filename) {
> rewrite ^/gallery3/index.php/(.+)$
> /gallery3/index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
> rewrite ^/gallery3/(.+)$
> /gallery3/index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
> rewrite ^/gallery3/$ /gallery3/index.php?kohana_uri=/
> last;
> }
>
> }
> Could anybody supply a correct try_files directive and explain how
> and why try_files should do the stuff in this case?

Try this:

location /gallery3 {

  location /gallery3(.*)$ {
    try_files $uri /gallery3/index.php$1 /gallery3$1 /gallery3/index.php?kohana_uri=$1;
  }

  ## You need this here to make it work with the nested location.
  location /gallery3/index.php {
    (fastcgi or proxy_pass stuff here)
  }
}

--- appa