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

Perhaps it searches for index.html? Try changing to

location /phpmyadmin {
    root   /var/www/nginx-default/phpMyAdmin;
    index index.php;
}

and add section below, to avoid case-related issues

location /phpMyAdmin {
   rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
}