PHP assets not being served by nginx - php

Question

I've installed a WP blog and added a location block for it on the nginx server block configuration. When visiting the blog at example.com/blog or any of the blog posts like example.com/blog/foo-bar-baz the content is served but all assets are missing.
When I check the logs it looks like all requests to those asset URLs are being permanently redirected to the root blog URL. Here's an example of a request from nginx's access log:
"GET /blog/wp-includes/js/jquery.min.js HTTP/1.1" 301 5 "https://example.com/blog/" "USER_AGENT_STRING"
Below is the nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.example.com example.com;
return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
root /home/example/current/public;
index index.html index.htm;
location ~ /blog {
index index.php index.html index.htm;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/blog/index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_buffers 256 128k;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 300s;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300s;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300s;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
How can I edit either of the location blocks to have nginx catch the requests for all URLs that contain either /blog/wp-content/ or /blog/wp-includes/? I've tried adding the following location block but it did not work:
location ~ ^(/wp-content/|/wp-includes/)/.*\.(jpe?g|gif|css|png|js|ico|pdf|m4a|mov|mp3)$ {
root /var/www/blog;
}

Answer 1

Your configuration does not appear to have the ability to serve static content. A more conventional approach would be to use a nested location to serve the dynamic content. For example:
location ^~ /blog {
root /var/www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
}
}
See this document for more.