Nginx - Setting root location with spaces in path - nginx

Question

I'm trying to configure nginx for my project. Step by steps:
Create config file myproject
--/etc/nginx/sites-available
----myproject
Content of myproject file
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root "/path/to/html/My Project/company/myproject";
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name myproject.localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$request_uri;
location = /index.php {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME "/media/path/to/html/My Project/company/myproject/index.php";
}
}
}
Restart service nginx and try to load myproject.locahost in browser, I got "File not found."
View latest line in nginx error log, I got below error
9055#9055: *4 stat() "/media/path/to/html/My Project/company/myproject/" failed (13: Permission denied), client: 127.0.0.1, server: myproject.localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "myproject.localhost"
9055#9055: *4 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: myproject.localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "myproject.localhost"
If I move it to a directory path without space, It seems to work.
How can I define this path to make it work?

Answer 1

You should not use path with spaces in file or directory names. But in general Unix file or directory names can contain any character other than / (which is always a directory separator) and null bytes (which you can't use =D). Try to not use spaces, $, ;, |, <, >, etc. in file or directory names, or you should escape them using backslash symbol \ behind escaping symbol.