Nginx: Static files result in 404

Question

I'm trying to use this recipe for nginx vhost configuration for Drupal:

server { server_name example.com; root /var/www/drupal8; ## <-- Your only path reference. location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; } location = /robots.txt { allow all; log_not_found off; access_log off; } # Very rarely should these ever be accessed outside of your lan location ~* \.(txt|log)$ { allow 192.168.0.0/16; deny all; } location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ { return 403; } location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ { return 403; } # Block access to scripts in site files directory location ~ ^/sites/[^/]+/files/.*\.php$ { deny all; } # Allow "Well-Known URIs" as per RFC 5785 location ~* ^/.well-known/ { allow all; } # Block access to "hidden" files and directories whose names begin with a # period. This includes directories used by version control systems such # as Subversion or Git to store control files. location ~ (^|/)\. { return 403; } location / { # try_files $uri @rewrite; # For Drupal <= 6 try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string; # For Drupal >= 7 } location @rewrite { rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1; } # Don't allow direct access to PHP files in the vendor directory. location ~ /vendor/.*\.php$ { deny all; return 404; } # In Drupal 8, we must also match new paths where the '.php' appears in # the middle, such as update.php/selection. The rule we use is strict, # and only allows this pattern with the update.php front controller. # This allows legacy path aliases in the form of # blog/index.php/legacy-path to continue to route to Drupal nodes. If # you do not have any paths like that, then you might prefer to use a # laxer rule, such as: # location ~ \.php(/|$) { # The laxer rule will continue to work if Drupal uses this new URL # pattern with front controllers other than update.php in a future # release. location ~ '\.php$|^/update.php' { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(|/.*)$; # Security note: If you're running a version of PHP older than the # latest 5.3, you should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini. # See http://serverfault.com/q/627903/94922 for details. include fastcgi_params; # Block httpoxy attacks. See https://httpoxy.org/. fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY ""; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_intercept_errors on; # PHP 5 socket location. #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; # PHP 7 socket location. fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; } # Fighting with Styles? This little gem is amazing. # location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/imagecache/ { # For Drupal <= 6 location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/styles/ { # For Drupal >= 7 try_files $uri @rewrite; } # Handle private files through Drupal. Private file's path can come # with a language prefix. location ~ ^(/[a-z\-]+)?/system/files/ { # For Drupal >= 7 try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string; } location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ { try_files $uri @rewrite; expires max; log_not_found off; } } 

However it doesn't work as intended. Namely, I cannot access any static files - they give me 404 error, which is utterly strange to me, because if I understand correctly, according to this fragments:

location @rewrite { rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1; } location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg)$ { try_files $uri @rewrite; expires max; log_not_found off; } 

It should run index.php if static file has been not found... So why 404?

Also, I'm running nginx in a Docker container, but I made sure that it has read access to all directories, and I'm running some other configurations eg. for Prestashop, that doesn't suffer from this problem.

Answer 1

Your document root is defined as /var/www/drupal8 so that is the directory where Drupal's files should be located. For instance if you load http://www.example.com/sites/all/themes/README.txt that file should be at /var/www/drupal8/sites/all/themes/README.txt.