Nginx - php-files not found after rewrite - php

Question

I'm trying to rewriting /assets/* -> to /theme/theme_1/*.
The rewrite url works with all files except .php-files.
Example file structure:
/theme/theme_1/images/image.jpg
/theme/theme_1/images/user.jpg
/theme/theme_1/ajax/register.php
/theme/theme_1/ajax/read.php
The problem is the PHP-files, I get a 404 with this url:
wget http://example.com/assets/ajax/read.php.
File is found (200) using full path http://example.com/theme/theme_1/ajax/read.php
All other file works fine (200):
wget http://example.com/assets/images/image.jpg
nginx config:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
root /var/www/html;
index index.php index.html
server_name mysite.com;
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location /assets {
rewrite ^/assets/(.*) /theme/theme_1/$1 break;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
}

Answer 1

Okie you should try this
location /assets/ {
alias /var/www/html/theme/theme_1/;
}
If that doesn't work then try
location /assets/ {
alias /var/www/html/theme/theme_1/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
Edit-1
On second look I realize the previous answer won't work as ~ \.php { block will catch everything with php extension and the other assets block can never get called. So the solution is to nest the rewrite inside the php block. So use
location ~ \.php$ {
rewrite ^/assets/(.*)$ /theme/theme_1/$1;
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}