: How to map requests to an external directory I have a directory/application that is located outside of the web root directory of my site. Say the site is here: /var/www/site/htdocs/ And the
I have a directory/application that is located outside of the web root directory of my site.
Say the site is here:
/var/www/site/htdocs/
And the external app is located here:
/var/www/apps/coolapp/
My question is how can I configure nginx to map/route all requests that are like mysite.com/coolapp/* (asterisk being wildcard) to the external location /var/www/apps/coolapp/? For example, mysite.com/coolapp/test.php should server /var/www/apps/coolapp/test.php.
Per @krokola 's answer, I tried adding the alias directive in the production.conf file that the main nginx.conf file includes. Here is what production.conf currently looks like
server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /blah/blah/blah;
ssl_certificate_key /blah/blah/blah;
ssl_protocols blah blah blah;
ssl_ciphers blahblahblah;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers blahblah;
access_log /var/log/nginx/www.mysite.com-access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/www.mysite.com-error.log error;
server_name mysite.com mysite.com; root /var/www/site/htdocs;
include conf/magento_rewrites.conf;
include conf/magento_security.conf;
include /var/www/site/nginx/*.conf;
#-------CODE IN QUESTION-------
location /coolapp/ {
alias /var/www/apps/coolapp/;
location ~ .php {
# Copied from "# PHP Handler" below
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
rewrite_log on;
# By default, only handle fcgi without caching
include conf/magento_fcgi.conf;
}
}
# PHP handler
location ~ .php {
## Catch 404s that try_files miss
if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite / /index.php last; }
## Store code is defined in administration > Configuration > Manage Stores
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE default;
fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
rewrite_log on;
# By default, only handle fcgi without caching
include conf/magento_fcgi.conf;
}
# 404s are handled by front controller
location @magefc {
rewrite ^(.*) /index.php?$query_string last;
}
# Last path match hands to magento or sets global cache-control
location / {
## Maintenance page overrides front controller
index index.html index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ @magefc ;
expires 24h;
}
}
conf/magento_fcgi.conf looks like this:
fastcgi_pass phpfpm;
## Tell the upstream who is making the request
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_redirect off;
# Ensure the admin panels have enough time to complete large requests ie: report generation, product import/export
proxy_read_timeout 1600s;
# Ensure PHP knows when we use HTTPS
fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
## Fcgi Settings
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 120;
fastcgi_send_timeout 320s;
fastcgi_read_timeout 1600s;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 512 64k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 128k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
# nginx will buffer objects to disk that are too large for the buffers above
fastcgi_temp_path /tmpfs/nginx/tmp 1 2; #fastcgi_keep_conn on; # NGINX 1.1.14
expires off; ## Do not cache dynamic content
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You need to set an alias.
location /coolapp/ {
alias /var/www/apps/coolapp/;
}
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Update after comment:
Unfortunately, it's not working for me. I'm getting a 404 response
when trying to request mysite.com/coolapp/test.php when
/var/www/apps/coolapp/test.php exists
To understand why alias is not working, you have to take a look at how nginx processes a request: request_processing
From the manual:
Nginx first searches for the most specific prefix location given by
literal strings regardless of the listed order. In the configuration
above the only prefix location is “/” and since it matches any request
it will be used as a last resort. Then nginx checks locations given by
regular expression in the order listed in the configuration file. The
first matching expression stops the search and nginx will use this
location. If no regular expression matches a request, then nginx uses
the most specific prefix location found earlier.
If there is a regular expression that matches a request, it overrides static prefixes. In your configuration, when accessing /var/www/apps/coolapp/test.php, 2 locations match:
location /coolapp/
location ~ .php
Because the second location is a regular expression, is overrides the first. But when you are accessing a html file eg: /var/www/apps/coolapp/test.html, if works as expected as only one location is found, the alias location.
In order to fix the problem with accessing php in alias path and override the default php location, you can add a nested location within the alias location, and do whatever you wish to do when calling php files in the nested location. In your configuration this would be:
location /coolapp/ {
alias /var/www/apps/coolapp/;
location ~ .php {
Do whatever is needed
}
}
You can find an example here
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