Nginx Location Block

[Aleksandar Lazic]

Hi Julian.

Am 25-05-2015 07:44, schrieb Julian De Marchi:
> heya-
> 
> I'm having some interesting dramas with Nginx location block. I put it
> down to a misconfiguration in my conf files, but I can't locate what it
> possible could be.
> 
> Briefly, my setup is using an Nginx frontend server to do SSL 
> offloading
> then pass requests to my backend Nginx servers which then process the
> request via fastCGI.

You must tell nginx to use fcgi.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html

but you config snippet shows.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html

> My issue is when I try to access URIs like /cms/index.php?blah, the
> frontend Nginx gives 404. Access with /cms/ and Nginx passes the 
> request
> to the backend.
> 
> Here is my frontend location block:
> 
>   location / {
>     limit_req zone=root burst=300;
>     proxy_set_header Host            $host;
>     proxy_set_header X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;
>     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>     proxy_set_header HTTPS             on;
>     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-HTTPS on;
>     proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Protocol $scheme;
>     proxy_pass  http://webpool;
>   }
> 

[snipp]

> I've read and re-read the below and I'm drawing blanks, as my
> understanding is, it should work.
> -
> https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-nginx-server-and-location-block-selection-algorithms

maybe you could also read.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-and-implementing-fastcgi-proxying-in-nginx

> - http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html

and for deeper understanding try

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+fast+cgi+work

> Many thanks in advance for helping me understand my problem.

HTH

> --julian

Aleks
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