Configuring nginx for both static pages and fcgi simultaneously

[Richard Stanway]

Are you sure you don't want to use try_files for this?

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#try_files

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 06:55:54PM -0400, Denis Papathanasiou wrote:
>
> > I have the following configuration file defined in
> > /etc/nginx/conf.d/my-project.conf (this is on debian).
> >
> > It does what I want, in that it serves static contet in the /css,
> /images,
> > /js folders along with index.html correctly.
> >
> > And for dynamic requests (I'm running an fcgi-enabled server on port
> 9001)
> > to /contact, /login, and /singup it also works correctly.
> >
> > I would just like to be able to declare that anything *except*
> index.html,
> > /css, /images, and /js, it should all go to the fcgi server.
> >
> > I've experimented with various definitions of "location", but the only
> > one that seems to work is the one I have below, where all the possible
> > fcgi paths are defined explicitly.
> >
> > Is there a better, simpler way of doing this?
>
> So, you need to pass to fastcgi anything except /, /index.html,
> and anything starting with /css/, /images/, and /js/, right?
>
> Most simple solution would be exactly this, by defining a catch-all
> "location /" to pass anything to fastcgi, and explicitly excluding
> required paths using additional locations:
>
>    root   /var/www/my-project/html;
>    index  index.html;
>
>    location / {
>        fastcgi_pass ...
>        include fastcgi_params;
>    }
>
>    location = / {}
>    location = /index.html {}
>    location /css/ {}
>    location /images/ {}
>    location /js/ {}
>
> --
> Maxim Dounin
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