Nginx conf with php-fpm alias not working

Question

i cant get the kohana aplication working.

Server specs: ubuntu 14.04, nginx, php7.0-fpm

I have the following structure:

build: (static website) ,server: (php-kohana application)

|-- build | |-- fonts | |-- images | |-- index.html | |-- scripts | `-- styles |-- server | `-- cms | |-- application | |-- database | |-- index.php | |-- install.php.bkp | |-- media | |-- modules | |-- system | `-- vendor 

And the following nginx conf:

server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html; root /srv/www/build/; location = /{ } location /server/cms/{ alias /srv/www/server/cms/; try_files $uri $uri/ =404; } location ~ \.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; #try_files $uri =404; } location ~ /\.ht { deny all; } 

}

When i access / i can see the static website,

but when i access /server/cms/ i dont see any errors, only a blank page, no logs in /var/log/nginx/error.log

What can i be missing, why i am not getting any errors?

Answer 1

Your PHP location block has no directory specified. So, it means that when going to http://www.example.com/index.php, nginx will try to search /srv/www/build/index.php, which does not exist.

I don't know how the Kohana application is designed and how it should be deployed. If you want to show /srv/www/server/cms/index.php when user goes into http://www.example.com/, you need to use this PHP location block:

location ~ \.php$ { alias /srv/www/server/cms/; include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; }