nginx rewrite or internal redirection, primary script unknown

Question

I am converting to nginx from apache. The application in question is as follows

/contentlibrary_js /contentlibrary_js/app/index.php --> one page ajax app /contentlibrary_js/pagecreator/index.php --> codeigniter application backend

I'm hoping to have one server block handle both the request to the frontend and the requests to the backend.

With the following configuration, I recieve "rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/index.php" in my nginx error log.

I tried adding a second location block to handle requests to the pagecreator/index.php file but I then the application hangs waiting for a response and I get "FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream," in the error log.

Any suggestions, Thanks

server { server_name contentlib.dev; #access_log logs/leonardo.access.log main; root /Users/acasanova/projects/mednet/contentlibrary_js; index index.html index.htm index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ /pagecreator/index.php /index.php /index.php$uri /index.php?$args; # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000 # Codeigniter # location /pagecreator/{ # try_files $uri $uri/ index.php$request_uri; # #root /Users/acasanova/projects/mednet/contentlibrary_js/pagecreator; # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # fastcgi_index index.php; # fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /Users/acasanova/projects/mednet/contentlibrary_js/pagecreator$fastcgi_script_name; # include fastcgi_params; # } location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { #GC # try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$uri /index.php?$args; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; #fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename; include fastcgi_params; } location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } } 

Answer 1

It seems I had a hard time understanding that the try_file directive will allow for other location blocks to be accessed. I kept thinking that once the request matches a location, then that is the only location block to be processed.

server { server_name contentlib.dev; access_log logs/contentlibrary_access.log; root /Users/acasanova/projects/mednet/contentlibrary_js; #default_type text/html; index index.php index.html index.htm; location /app{ try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php /index.php$uri =404; root /Users/acasanova/projects/mednet/contentlibrary_js/app; } location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|html|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|doc|xls|pdf|ppt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|swf|flv|txt|xml|docx|xlsx|js)$ { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$uri =404; access_log off; } location /pagecreator{ try_files $uri /index.php index.php$uri =404; root /Users/acasanova/projects/mednet/contentlibrary_js/pagecreator; } location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { #GC fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass unix:/php-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } }