nginx redirection cycle with X-Accel-Redirect

Question

Trying to get nginx to work with the X-Accel-Redirect header. I'm getting this error:

*24 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/app/index.php", client: 127.0.0.1, server: project.dev, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "project.dev" 

nginx site conf:

server { listen 80; server_name project.dev; root /www/project; location ^~ /f/ { internal; alias /www/project/files/; } location / { try_files $uri /app/index.php$is_args$args; } include php.conf; include apache.conf; } 

/www/project/app/index.php

<?php header('X-Accel-Redirect: /f/image.jpg'); exit; 

I added ^~ to the location block, because I thought that would terminate the matching of location blocks, and therefor solve this. This might be a misunderstanding from my part.

Any idea how to fix this?

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Update with php.conf and apache.conf

php.conf:

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000 # location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } 

apache.conf:

# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root # concurs with nginx's one # location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } 

Answer 1

You haven't told nginx what index file to look for.

Try adding

index index.php; 

After the root directive.

Answer 2

Looks like I failed to restart my nginx server. When I returned to this a couple of days later, it was suddenly working, and I realized it must be after a reboot. Sorry for wasting your time.

Now if I only could make it send the correct Content-type header..