Two drupal installs in nginx - php

Question

Im trying to have 2 websites set up on a CENTOS 7, Digital Ocean server.
One site is to be served from /srv/http/eventadvisor.in/public_html and the other from /srv/http/eventadvisor.in/public_html.
I installed drupal seccessfully in the first directory. Now when I repeat the steps in the second, it automatically takes the settings from the first site's settings.php and gives the following error:
Drupal Already Installed
To start over, you must empty your existing database.
To install to a different database, edit the appropriate settings.php file in the sites folder.
To upgrade an existing installation, proceed to the update script.
View your existing site.
I am running a nginx server with the following conf file:
user nginx;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*.conf;
}
And each sites configuration file is:
server {
listen 80;
server_name sanjayshitole.com www.sanjayshitole.com *.sanjayshitole.com;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log /var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log main;
# location / {
root /srv/http/sanjayshitole.com/public_html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# }
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1;
#}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
root /srv/http/eventadvisor.in/public_html;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
}

Answer 1

I managed to solve the issue by using a modification of the configuration shown in this blog: Lelutin
This is my configuration file that worked well (slight centOS specific modifications were made):
server {
server_name sanjayshitole.com;
root /srv/http/sanjayshitole.com/public_html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/sanjayshitole.comaccess.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/sanjayshitole.org.error.log;
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
# For drush
location = /backup {
deny all;
}
# Prevent user from accessing settings.php directly
location ~ ^/sites/[^/]+/settings.php$ {
deny all;
}
## Replicate the Apache <FilesMatch> directive of Drupal standard
## .htaccess. Disable access to any code files. Return a 404 to curtail
## information disclosure. Hide also the text files.
location ~* ^(?:.+\.(?:htaccess|make|txt|log|engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(?:\.php)?|xtmpl)|code-style\.pl|/Entries.*|/Repository|/Root|/Tag|/Template)$ {
return 404;
}
location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
return 403;
}
location / {
# This is cool because no php is touched for static content
try_files $uri #rewrite;
}
location #rewrite {
# Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
# Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
#rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1&$args;
rewrite ^ /index.php last;
}
# Use an SSH tunnel to access those pages. They shouldn't be visible to
# external peeping eyes.
location = /install.php {
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}
location = /update.php {
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
root /srv/http/sanjayshitole.com/public_html;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
}
## Drupal 7 generated image handling, i.e., imagecache in core. See:
## https://drupal.org/node/371374
location ~* /sites/.*/files/styles/ {
access_log off;
expires 30d;
try_files $uri #rewrite;
}
# Fighting with ImageCache? This little gem is amazing.
location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/imagecache/ {
try_files $uri #rewrite;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
I would still like an explanation of why the default conf that ships with nginx did not work, so please feel free to answer this question.
SD