Hosting a web application from a subsite

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 02:39:32AM -0400, Ron Scott-Adams wrote:

> I’m not having much luck trying to configure this site the way I want. I’m modifying http://wiki.nginx.org/Piwik to suit a case in which it is served out of a subsite location, e.g. example.com/stats.
> 
> I’ve created 2 configuration files. One is included outside the server sections of the main site’s configuration file: http://paste2.org/e8HcPkda
> 
> The second is included from the server 443 section of the site: http://paste2.org/ts8j5VWK
> 
> I was attempting to deliver this via proxy_pass, but it appears I’ve failed: the error log throws:
> [error] 30196#0: *6289 upstream sent unsupported FastCGI protocol version: 72 while reading response header from upstream, client: 185.47.241.122, server: tohuw.net, request: "GET /stats/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:8001", host: "tohuw.net"

You are connecting with fastcgi_pass (which talks FastCGI 
protocol) to an HTTP backend server, this won't work.  To talk to 
HTTP backends you have to use proxy_pass (note "proxy", not "fastcgi").

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Maxim Dounin
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