Nginx config for 2 PHP applications with url prefixes - php

Question

I would like to serve 2 PHP(Symfony) applications under the same domain, with a URL prefix for one of the apps.
So www.mydomain.com/ should serve the first app while www.mydomain.com/secondapp should serve the second one.
I ended up with this config which doesn't work :
server {
server_name mydomain.com www.mydomain.com;
location / {
root /var/www/first-app/web;
try_files $uri /app.php$is_args$args;
}
location /secondapp {
root /var/www/second-app/web;
try_files $uri /app.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ ^/(app|app_dev|config)\.php(/|$) {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param HTTPS off;
}
}
When I put the root directive for the first app under the last location, it works for the first app but the second can't be served.
Should I create a second server directive and use sub-domain rewriting instead?
Thanks!

Answer 1

You should use alias instead of root in your locations. If you use root, the path that is matched in the location is added to the root path.

Answer 2

So I finally found the solution: my nginx conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.mydomain.com;
root /var/www/first-app/web;
location ~ ^/secondapp(/.*)$ {
alias /var/www/second-app/web;
try_files $1 #app;
}
location #app {
expires off;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/second-app/web/app.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /secondapp/app.php;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI /secondapp$1;
}
location / {
try_files $uri /app.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ ^/(app|app_dev|config)\.php(/|$) {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param HTTPS off;
}
error_log /var/log/nginx/app_error.log;
access_log /var/log/nginx/app_access.log;
}