Nginx location configuration (subfolders) - php

Question

lets say I've a path like:
/var/www/myside/
that path contains two folders... let's say
/static and /manage
I'd like to configure nginx to have an access to:
/static folder on / (eg. http://example.org/)
this folder has some .html files.
/manage folder on /manage (eg. http://example.org/manage) in this case this folder contains Slim's PHP framework code - that means the index.php file is in public subfolder (eg. /var/www/mysite/manage/public/index.php)
I've tried a lot of combinations such as
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.org;
error_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/error.log;
access_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/access.log;
root /var/www/mysite;
location /manage {
root $uri/manage/public;
try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location / {
root $uri/static/;
index index.html;
}
location ~ \.php {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
The / works correctly anyway manage doesn't. Am I doing something wrong? Does anybody know what should I change?
Matthew.

Answer 1

To access a path like /var/www/mysite/manage/public with a URI like /manage, you will need to use alias rather than root. See this document for details.
I am assuming that you need to run PHP from both roots, in which case you will need two location ~ \.php blocks, see example below. If you have no PHP within /var/www/mysite/static, you can delete the unused location block.
For example:
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.org;
error_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/error.log;
access_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/access.log;
root /var/www/mysite/static;
index index.html;
location / {
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ^~ /manage {
alias /var/www/mysite/manage/public;
index index.php;
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^ /manage/index.php last; }
location ~ \.php$ {
if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
}
The ^~ modifier causes the prefix location to take precedence over regular expression locations at the same level. See this document for details.
The alias and try_files directives are not together due to this long standing bug.
Be aware of this caution in the use of the if directive.