Alias or Symlink help?

[Victor]

Maybe
location /video/ {
   root /home/documents/;
}

?

2012/3/6 adam estes <wtymdjs at gmail.com>

> I want to create a link so /video will pull from somewhere other then
> the document root.
>
> I would just move this over, but this have dynamic files of multiple
> gb that I need to load, so its easier to leave them there.
>
> First I tired using alias
>
> location /video/ {
>    alias /home/documents/;
> }
>
> location ~ ^/video/(.+\.php)$ {
>    alias /home/documents/$1;
>    fastcgi_pass   unix:/tmp/phpfpm.sock;
>    fastcgi_index  index.php;
>    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $request_filename;
>
>    # From fastcgi_params
>    fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
>    fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
>    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
>    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
>    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
>    fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
>    fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
>    fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      /home/documents; # <-- Changed
>    fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
>    fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
>    fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
>    fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
>    fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
>    fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
>    fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
>    fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
>    fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
> }
>
> That only gives me a "No file specified" message when accessing php.
>
> I then tried a sym link instead (Obviously removing those lines from conf
>
> ls -s /home/documents/ /home/sites/domain/basketballiq/video/
>
> Html file will load properly, but php gives me a 502.
>
> What do I do? :(
>
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