Issue with multiple location blocks to handle two webapps

[Nikhil Bhardwaj]

Hi All,

My webapp is a combination of two apps running on one server.

the community app (smaller one) is located under community directory and
the all urls starting with community should be handled by it
e.g. example.com/community/questionsexample,com/community/2/an-actual-qestion
etc etc

The main app takes care of rest of  URLs such as example.com (which should
redirect to example.com/city) example.com/city/sampledir etc etc

the location blocks I have used are
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#handle community section separately
    location ^~ /*community*/ {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?qa-rewrite=$uri&$args;
        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME
$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
            access_log off;
        }
    }

    location =/ {
        #convert domain to domain/city
        rewrite ^(.*)$ $scheme://example.com/city permanent;
    }

   #these locations always use /city as prefix
   location ~^/(biz|biz/|profiles|profiles/) {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ $scheme://example.com/city$1 permanent;
    }

    #main app should handle everything except community
    location* /* {
        #remove trailing slash
        rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;
        #NB this will remove the index.php from the url
        try_files $uri $uri /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
        access_log off;
    }
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With this code the main app works fine but the community app ONLY works for
example.com/community/ and example.com/community/?a=foo/bar etc etc but *NOT
* for example.com/community/foo/bar

I think example.com/community/foo/bar doesn't get handled by the community
location block and goes to the main location which gives 404 error.

I tried various combination for location but nothing is fixing it
perfectly. I will appreciate any pointers / help.

Thanks,
Nikhil
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