nginx handle multiple locations for one server

Question

I need to setup a virtual host to run my users.example.com website. It needs PHP support via php-fpm. The ideia is to have a mapping like this:

users.example.com/~user1/folder/file.php -> /home/user1/www/folder/file1.php users.example.com/user1/folder/file.php -> /home/user1/www/folder/file1.php users.example.com/~user2/stuff/about.html -> /home/user2/www/stuff/about.html

et cetera. Each users files run under a different PHP-FPM pool (so, a different fpm socket), for security reasons. The socket has a full path off /var/run/{USERNAME}_fpm.sock. How can I make this server configuration?

Initial idea is to have a server { }, with server_name users.example.com; and a location with a different root for each user. I'd like to know if that works and the setup for it to work.

Answer 1

I haven't tested this myself, but something like this could work

server { server_name users.example.com; listen 80; location ~ /(?:~)?(?<user>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)/ { alias /home/$user/www/; fastcgi_pass /var/run/$user_fpm.sock; } } 

So, in the location line, we capture the username to the $user variable, and then use the variable for the alias and fastcgi_pass directives. You can also expand the regular expression for the user home directory if you want to include more characters in it.

The (?:~)? part matches the optional ~ character in the pathname.