nginx rewrite issues - php

Question

I just switched from apache to nginx, just for testing and I experience the following problem. I am using this config for nginx
location ~ \.php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Now I have a php script makethumbs.php that automatically resize images displayed on my website. With apache, works just fine. With nginx I get this error:
2011/12/29 15:13:17 [error] 15548#0: *9 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/makethumbs.php/0737438664-22.jpg" failed (20: Not a directory), client: 193.138.192.81, server: www.escortele.eu, request: "GET /makethumbs.php/0737438664-22.jpg?width=48&height=64&image=/members/escorte/0737438664-22.jpg HTTP/1.1", host: "escortele.eu:88", referrer: "http://escortele.eu:88/"
The problem is that it sees makethumbs.php as a directory and it should be a script not a directory.
I can't figure it out what rewrite rule to use, only for makethumbs.php so it acts like a script and not like a directory.

Answer 1

You should have pasted the rest of your configuration file because what you pasted has nothing to do with what you want.
That error is because you have "try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;" somewhere in your config. You need to remove the $uri/ from that to fix the error you pasted.

Answer 2

The problem is not in
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
That part is good. You need it.
Since you didn't post your entire config I can't be sure what you're problem is, but I can tell you what my problem was in the same type of situation. Following the recomendation of others, I had a location defined for image files as follows:
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
That was the problem. Because Nginx uses the most specific location that matches, the URL ending with .jpg would match this location and this location doesn't tell it to use index.php. I just got rid of this location and it worked.
Additional tips:
define your root in the server block and not in location blocks.
I don't think you don't need "fastcgi_index index.php;"
You don't need to hard-code your document root:
change
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
to
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

Answer 3

This is the script I am using for thumbnails: http://escorte.pro:88/makethumbs.txt
My nginx config is as follows: http://escorte.pro:88/nginx.txt
The error I get is:
2014/08/27 14:59:07 [error] 20986#0: *86 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/escorte.pro/makethumbs.php/0737835261-79.jpg" failed (20: Not a directory), client: 83.166.220.234, server: escorte.pro, request: "GET /makethumbs.php/0737835261-79.jpg?width=48&height=64&image=/members/escorte/0737835261-79.jpg HTTP/1.1", host: "escorte.pro:88", referrer: "http://escorte.pro:88/"
2014/08/27 14:59:07 [error] 20986#0: *87 open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/escorte.pro/makethumbs.php/0743844296-60.jpg" failed (20: Not a directory), client: 83.166.220.234, server: escorte.pro, request: "GET /makethumbs.php/0743844296-60.jpg?width=48&height=64&image=/members/escorte/0743844296-60.jpg HTTP/1.1", host: "escorte.pro:88", referrer: "http://escorte.pro:88/"
The makethumbs.php script works perfectly fine on apache
Any clues?
I hope this info si more complete than the previous...