How to stop Nginx sending static file requests to the CakePHP app controller when running Cake in a subdirectory?

Question

I'm trying to run a CakePHP app from within a subfolder on Nginx, but the static files are not being found and are instead being passed to the app controller. Here's my current config:

    location /uniquetv {
        index index.php index.html;

        if (-f $request_filename) {
            break;
        }

        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^/uniquetv(.+)$ /uniquetv/webroot/$1 last;
            break;
        }
    }                                        

    location /uniquetv/webroot {
        index index.php;

        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^/uniquetv/webroot/(.+)$ /uniquetv/webroot/index.php?url=$1 last;
            break;
        }
    }

Any ideas? :)

Answer 1

Throlkim, what exactly is being displayed when you browse to the url you want to use? ie are you getting a 504 error message etc

you need to have something similar to this which works for me

server {

        listen   80;
        server_name  yourwebsite.com;

        access_log /path_to_your_logfile/log/access.log;
        error_log /path_to_your_logfile/log/error.log;

location / {

                    root /path_to_cake_root/cake/app/webroot;
                    index index.php;

                    if (-f $request_filename) {
                    break;
                    }
                    if (!-f $request_filename) {
                    rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
                    break;
                    }

#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 /path_to_cake_root/cake/app/webroot/index.php; #$fastcgi_script_name; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; } } }

I asked a similar question which was resolved as per accepted answer and a bit of tweeking http://serverfault.com/questions/32070/cakephp-nginx-config-rewrite-rules