Having multiple Symfony2 apps on same domain

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sat, 2014-12-27 at 05:52 -0500, Claros wrote:
> Hello everybody !
> 
> I just switched from Apache2 to Nginx and I met some issues having the same
> configuration. What I want to do is having multiple Symfony2 apps on the
> same domain name. Each app will have a subdirectory and a main app will be
> on the domain name itself. For instance :
> http://mydomain/               -> main app
> http://mydomain/subdir1   -> another app
> http://mydomain/subdir2   -> yet another app
> One of Symfony2 feature is to have only three php files to be executed, and
> all the URL are rewritten to those files. You can found basic configuration
> for Symfony2 at this address if you need more information :
> http://wiki.nginx.org/Symfony
> Now after many hours of configuration, with the help of debug logs, I almost
> did it. This is my current configuration :
> 
> server {
>     listen   80;
>     server_name mydomain;
>     root /server/www/main-app/web;
> 
>     location @rewriteapp {
>         rewrite ^(.*)$ /app.php/$1 last;
>     }
> 
>     location /subdir1/ {
>         # alias /server/www/other-app1/web;
>         set $root "/server/www/other-app1/web";
>         # try to serve file directly, fallback to app.php
>         try_files $uri @rewriteapp;
>     }
> 
>     location / {
>         index app.php;
>         set $root "/server/www/main-app/web";
>         # try to serve file directly, fallback to app.php
>         try_files $uri @rewriteapp;
>     }
> 
>     # PROD
>     location ~ ^/app\.php(/|$) {
>         fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
>         fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
> 
>         include fastcgi_params;
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $root$fastcgi_script_name;
>         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
>         fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
>     }
> }
> 
> Why did I create a variable "$root" ? Because when I was using the root (or
> alias) directive in a location block and the variable $document_root, I
> found out that this variable has as final value (in the location app.php)
> the first root directive in the server or the default root location. 
> With this configuration, it almost work. The main app works and the
> subdirectories are correctly sent to their directory. The last problem is
> that the URI processed by the file app.php also contains the subdirectory in
> it, so the others apps send 404 for all the URL. I tried to fix that by
> changing "REQUEST_URI" parameter, but with that the app.php generate wrong
> URL without the subdirectory.
> 
> So is their a way to achieve this configuration ? Thanks you !
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,255806,255806#msg-255806

Try using a map to set the $root...

Steve

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