nginx location alias: static files ignored? - php

Question

im trying to get the zabbix-frontend to work with nginx.
this here is my nginx conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /var/www/test/htdocs;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location /zabbix {
alias /usr/share/zabbix;
index index.php;
error_page 403 404 502 503 504 /zabbix/index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }
expires epoch;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico)$ {
access_log off;
expires 33d;
}
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
include /etc/nginx/proxy_params;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_read_timeout 120;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
include /etc/nginx/security;
include /etc/nginx/main_rules;
}
the php scripts in /zabbix are working! but files like /usr/share/zabbix/css.css are NOT being served (404). in the error log is this:
2013/07/19 20:23:33 [error] 13583#0: *1 open() "/var/www/test/htdocs/zabbix/css.css" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: xxx, server: localhost, request: "GET /zabbix/css.css HTTP/1.1"
so as we can see, nginx is looking for the file in the main root directory /var/www/test/htdocs/ instead of in the alias directory /usr/share/zabbix/.
why is that so and how can i fix that?

Answer 1

I would try to separate them locations. /zabbix with alias only and ~ ^/zabbix/*.php$ with fastcgi. Both outside the / location with root.