nginx not redirecting to upstream location - php

Question

I thought I had understood the basics of nginx rewrite rules. How wrong I was.
Can you please let me know what is I am doing so wrong here:
server {
listen 80;
server_name myserver;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
root /apps/user/websites/;
location / {
autoindex on;
}
location ~ myapp {
try_files $uri $uri /office/myapp/api/public/index.php;
}
location ~\.php$ {
try_files $uri $uri /office/fake/index.html;
# include fastcgi.conf;
# fastcgi_pass php-fpm-upstream;
}
}
If I visit http://myserver/office The index.php is accessed, but instead of being caught by the last location (~.php$) as I thought it would, it is processed as a text file and send to the browser.
I was expecting to receive the office/fake/index.html file instead.
Thank you very much,
Andres

Answer 1

Regex matching locations are checked in the same order they are appeared in the config file. Having the
location ~ myapp {
try_files $uri $uri /office/myapp/api/public/index.php;
}
before the
location ~\.php$ {
try_files $uri $uri /office/fake/index.html;
# include fastcgi.conf;
# fastcgi_pass php-fpm-upstream;
}
would give you an endless loop on every URI containing myapp substring (except those that are matching existed files and not ended with .php) because the /office/myapp/api/public/index.php URI matches the myapp regex. You should swap those locations in order to get this configuration workable.