nginx make root of domain go to subfolder

Question

I think that what I'm trying to acomplish is similar to question (https://serverfault.com/questions/232051/rewrite-a-subdirectory-to-root-on-nginx#=) but I'll try to explain it better

so what I'm trying to do it to have the root of the domain (example.com) rewrite to the example.com/curr folder, except when curr is already in the request

example1:

example.com/ should rewrite to example.com/curr/

leading to the index.php located in there, serving it up (using php5-fpm for php)

example2:

example.com/curr should just be passed along, to be able to serve up the files

example3:

example.com/app should also just go to it's directory

current code (not working, 500 ISE):

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ v1/$uri/ /curr/index.php?q=$uri&$args; } #location ~* ^/([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)$ { # root /webroot/www/myfolder/; # try_files /curr/$1; #} location ^~ /p/ { rewrite ^/(.*)$ /curr/index.php?p=$1 last; } 

note: the last location here defines rewrite if a page is defined, this one works fine and should have a very similar syntax to what should work for the root dir

thanks for helping me out.

update: I've since also tried

location / { try_files @missing; } location /curr/{ try_files $uri $uri/; } location @missing { rewrite ^ /curr/index.php?q=$request_uri&$args?; } 

according to the linked question something like this should work, but this just gives me the index page on root

Edit: I want to do this because all my subdomain folders are in the web/ folder, and I don't want those in the main website folder. I like to have everything separate & still conveniently accessible from f.e. FTP

Edit2:

I've got it up to the point where everything works, except 'example.com', which still renders me a 500 error

Code:

location / { rewrite ^ /curr/$uri last; } location = / { rewrite ^ /curr/ last; } location ^~ /curr/ {   try_files $uri $uri/; } 

(please also note that using only location = / { rewrite ^ /curr/ last; } it did render the homepage correctly (but not everything else))

Answer 1

How about:

 location / { rewrite ^ /curr/ last; } 

Edit after discussion below:

#Default is to rewrite location / { rewrite ^ /curr$uri last; } #Except if request already begins with curr... location ^~ /curr/ { } #...OR it has a directory already (/curr/ will have matched above) location ~ /(.*)/(.*) { } 

I am not convinced this is the best way to achieve whatever it is you're trying to achieve, but I think it should answer your question.

try_files won't achieve what you want I don't think (and not at all in your example as it's sending you into an infinite loop), as if index.html existed in the root, it wouldn't redirect you to /curr/ it would load up the index.html in root.