How to setup php to run from a single location in Nginx - wordpress

Question

I've been struggling with this for some time now. I want to setup a Wordpress blog to run from a "/blogname" path on a server instead of the root. I also want the path to have a different name then the directory where the Wordpress scripts are since the server itself will run django.
I have Nginx as a reverse proxy and I set up php-fpm to run the wordpress. Here's my Nginx configuration file:
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#tcp_nopush on;
#gzip on;
server {
root /Users/username/Dev/Wordpress/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
listen 8080;
server_name localhost;
# Do not serve hidden files
location ~ /\. {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
deny all;
}
# Static files
location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
expires max;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
}
# This is the problem
location /blogname {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
rewrite /blogname(.*) /blog$1 last;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /Users/username/Dev/Wordpress/blog$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
}
Right now when I visit localhost:8080/blogname I just download the index.php script instead of executing it.
Other tips are also welcome.

Answer 1

Replace this
location /blogname {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
rewrite /blogname(.*) /blog$1 last;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /Users/username/Dev/Wordpress/blog$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
with this
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
I hope this should work for you because this is what I use for my local server.