fastcgi & index

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 06:12:58AM -0800, Grant wrote:

> > The "fastcgi_index" directive is to instruct a fastcgi backend
> > which file to use if a request with an URI ending with "/" is
> > passed to the backend.  That is, it makes sense in a configuration
> > like this:
> >
> >     location / {
> >         fastcgi_pass  localhost:9000;
> >         fastcgi_index index.php;
> >         include       fastcgi.conf;
> >     }
> >
> > It doesn't make sense in configurations with only *.php file
> > passed to fastcgi backends though.  E.g., in a configuration like
> > this it doesn't make sense and should be removed:
> >
> >     location ~ \.php$ {
> >         fastcgi_pass  localhost:9000;
> >         # wrong: fastcgi_index doesn't make sense here
> >         fastcgi_index index.php;
> >         include       fastcgi.conf;
> >     }
> 
> In that case, should it be removed from the example here:
> 
> http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample

Yes, feel free to do so.

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Maxim Dounin
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