howto setup window nginx virtual directory with php support? - nginx

Question

Ngigx + PHP-FPM setup and working in root-directory, but I'm having trouble getting virtual directories to work.
I want //localhost/pb/test.php to execute c:\opt\php\public\test.php but it breaks with "no input file specified". In fact, not even .html files works, but once working, I want the php-directive to work under /pb as well.
current nginx.conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location / {
root html;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location /pb/ {
root /opt/php/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9123;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}

Answer 1

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#location explains how nginx matches locations.
in this case your prefix location /pb/ will match, and nginx will never get to the *.php matching location
what I would try is to set up a named location (the #bit makes it a named location):
location #fastcgi {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9123;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
and then refer to that in try_files directives from other locations, like this:
location /pb/ {
root /opt/php/public;
index index.html index.html;
try_files $uri #fastcgi;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
alias #fastcgi;
}
the try files above would first try an exact match file name and if it doesn't find that it will pass the request to the #fastcgi location
alternatively you could offcourse simply repeat the fastcgi bits in a nested location block inside your /pb/ location