Nginx serving the directory as an alias

Question

I am trying to use ResourceSpace as an alias on Nginx. Page scripts load, but static files do not load. Access to subdirectories gives an undefined index error

eximmanger downloads all scripts plus static files, while resourcepace does not download static files, loading only scripts

This is my configuration.

 server { listen 80; server_name myserver.com www.myserver.com; server_name_in_redirect off; access_log /var/log/nginx/myserver.access_log main; error_log /var/log/nginx/myserver.error_log info; location /resourcespace { alias /var/www/html/ResourceSpace/; } location /eximmanager { alias /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u/; } location /100/ { rewrite ^ http://100.myserver permanent; } location ~ ^/eximmanger/(.+\.*)$ { alias /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u/$1; fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename; # From fastcgi_params fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type; fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u; # <-- Changed fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol; fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1; fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version; fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr; fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr; fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name; fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200; } location ~ ^/resourcespace/(.+\.*)$ { alias /var/www/html/ResourceSpace/$1; fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename; # From fastcgi_params fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string; fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method; fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type; fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri; fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html/ResourceSpace; # <-- Changed fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol; fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1; fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version; fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr; fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr; fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port; fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name; fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200; } root /var/www/html/myserver; index index.php; # Support Clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri; } index index.php index.html index.htm default.html default.htm; # deny running scripts inside writable directories location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ { return 403; error_page 403 /403_error.html; } location ~ .*.php$ { #include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } # caching of files location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ { expires 1y; } location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ { expires 14d; 

Answer 1

I found out that the problem is not related to nginx at all, but to the ResourceSpace $baseurl directive. In the directive, I mixed up $baseurl = 'http://resourcespace.myserver.com'; and $baseurl = 'http://myserver.com/resourcespace'; . Therefore, keep an eye on this if you have similar problems.