Nginx subdirectory root with PHP

Question

I\'m running nginx in a docker container. I want to have a subdirectory /web/ to access my personal files and projects. It should also support php.

Belo

Answer 1

If your files are in /etc/nginx/www you will need to use an alias directive, rather than a root directive. See this document for details.

For example:

location ^~ /web {
    index index.php index.html;
    alias /etc/nginx/www;

    if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^ /web/index.php last; }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }

        fastcgi_pass php:9000;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
    }
}

Use $request_filename to obtain the correct path to the aliased file. Avoid try_files with alias due to this issue. See this caution on the use of if.