Nginx server config - rewrite issue

Question

I have following server configuration:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  mysite.proj;

    location / {
        root /path/to/mysite.proj/www;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
    }

    access_log /path/to/mysite.proj/data/logs/access.log;
    error_log  /path/to/mysite.proj/data/logs/error.log;

    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php last;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        root           /path/to/mysite.proj/www;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8081;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/mysite.proj/www$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.mysite.proj;
    rewrite ^/(.*) http://mysite.proj/$1 permanent;
}

It works fine, every url is rewritten to index.php. But in same time every stylesheet url, every javascript url, every image url is rewriten as well. How to write rewrite rule to not rewrite urls for css, js, images files?

Answer 1

You don't have a root set in the server context, which is where the if is, so it uses the default of <install prefix>/html. You should move the root to the server context and switch out the if for a try_files. Also, there's no reason to capture the request in the no-www redirect, as the original request is already stored in $request_uri.

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.mysite.proj;
    # Permanent redirect to no-www
    return 301 http://mysite.proj$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mysite.proj;

    root /path/to/mysite.proj/www;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    access_log /path/to/mysite.proj/data/logs/access.log;
    error_log  /path/to/mysite.proj/data/logs/error.log;

    location / {
        # try_files does not preserve query string by default like rewrite
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        # If the requested file doesn't exist, and /index.php doesn't, return a 404
        try_files $uri /index.php =404;

        include        fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:8081;
    }
}