root and alias with php5-fpm

[Kristofer Pettijohn]

I am having a difficult time finding a solution for this. 

I have PHP applications that may be referenced to from several websites, either from root locations or sub locations. 

For example: 

server { 
server_name domain.com; 
location / { 
... unrelated stuff ... 
} 
location /grant { 
root /apps/grant/; 
index index.php index.html; 
try_files $uri $uri/ /grant/index.php?$args; 

location ~ \.php$ { 
include fastcgi_params; 
fastcgi_pass unix:/local/sockets/grant.sock; 
} 
} 
} 

and then it may be somewhere else like this: 

server { 
server_name another-domain.com; 
location / { 
... unrelated stuff ... 
} 
location /employ { 
root /apps/grant/; 
index index.php index.html; 
try_files $uri $uri/ /employ/index.php?$args; 

location ~ \.php$ { 
include fastcgi_params; 
fastcgi_pass unix:/local/sockets/grant.sock; 
} 
} 
} 

So the only two things different are the "location" and "try_files". However, I know that "root" will append the URI to the path, so it will try /apps/grant/grant/ and /apps/grant/employ/ when looking for files. When I use "alias", it seems that try_files tries looking for index.php in the context of "location /" on each. 

The only way I can seem to resolve this is by creating a symbolic link at /apps/grant/grant/ and /apps/grant/employ/ pointing back to /apps/rant/, which I do not want. I just want each location in each server to see /apps/grant/ as the root, and for try_files to process the index.php file in the base of that location last. 

I have Lua compiled in, so I'm not sure if there are any tricks I can do with that to get this to work. I'm not sure what I'm missing. 

Can someone provide some guidance? 


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