Nginx location directive doesn't seem to be working. Am I missing something?

Question

I\'ve set up Nginx as my main web server and have two Mochiweb based servers behind it. Certain requests are reverse-proxied to these two servers. now, I want to access php

Answer 1

I struggled with this for hours now and none of the solutions discussed above worked to my case (since i needed to run index.php, index.php with arguments, and other php scripts than index.php), but finally reached the working configurations as the following:

    location /php-app {
    passenger_enabled off;
    alias /path/to/php-app/$1;
    index index.php index.html;
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
   }

   location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^/php-app(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
   }

location ~ \.php$ {
    alias /path/to/php-app/$1;
    rewrite ^/php-app(.*)$ $1 last;
    passenger_enabled off;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fpm.socket;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/php-app$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    }