How to configure NGINX location to serve Codeigniter RESTful API in sub directory of server?

Question

I have the following directory structure:

mysite.com - /api (codeigniter RESTful API Server) - /app (backbonejs app) 

I'm trying to configure NGINX to point all requests for mysite.com/api* to the api directory and use Codeigniter's setup.

Everything i've found works fine, if CI is in the root directory. But, the moment you try to put it in a sub-directory, it fails.

This is what I currently have:

server { listen 80; server_name local.mysite.com; root /Users/me/Sites/mysite; autoindex on; index index.html index.php; location /api { try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php; location ~ \.php$ { root /Users/me/Sites/mysite/api; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } } } 

Doing this just gives me a 'File not found' error. Not even a proper nginx 404. How do I configure NGINX for CodeIgniter in a subdir of a server?

Thanks!

Answer 1

For anyone else who is trying to figure this out, and failing because no answer is out there yet, here is a super simple setup:

140 server { 141 listen 80; 142 server_name local.mysite.com; 143 root /Users/me/Sites/mysite; 144 autoindex on; 145 index index.html index.php; 146 147 location /api { 148 try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php$args; 149 150 } 151 152 location ~ \.php$ { 153 fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; 154 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; 155 include fastcgi_params; 156 } 157 158 159 160 }