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Thorben
Thorben

Reputation: 6991

Nginx with CakePHP in subfolder not serving static files (CSS, JS, IMG)

I am trying to setup a Nginx server configuration to serve a CakePHP installation from and to a subfolder.

So i am using a sub folder for both the URL as well as on the system. Now it took me a while to figure the following config out with which requests are properly handled by CakePHP. This means it's correctly bootstraping and handling controllers.

What doesn't work however, is serving static files from the webroot directory (e.g. *.css files) as those are all interpreted as CakePHP controllers leading to a CssController could not be found. error.

My site.conf:

server {
  listen *:80;
  listen *:443 ssl;
  server_name sub.domain.com;
  ssl_certificate ./ssl/domain.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key ./ssl/domain.key;

  access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;
  error_log   /var/log/nginx/error.log;

  if ($ssl_protocol = "") {
    rewrite ^   https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
  }

  root /var/www/domain/sub/cakefolder/;
  autoindex off;
  index index.php;

  location /cakefolder {
    root /var/www/domain/sub/cakefolder/app/webroot/;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /cakefolder/index.php?$args;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index   index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  }

How do I stop Nginx from routing existing static files through the FastCGI PHP interpreter?

Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/22550332/671047 I already tried replacing my location /cakefolder { ... } with

 
location ~ /cakefolder/(.*) {
  try_files /cakefolder/$1 /cakefolder/$1/ /cakefolder/index.php?$args;
}

but this leads to a redirection loop causing a HTTP 500 error.

Solution (thanks Pete!):

I found the following additional directive to be working for this specific setup. This might not be the most elegant solution but who cares, glad it's working for now.


location ~* /cakefolder/(.*)\.(css|js|ico|gif|png|jpg|jpeg)$ {
  root /var/www/domain/sub/cakefolder/app/webroot/;
  try_files /$1.$2 =404;
}

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3621

Answers (1)

pete
pete

Reputation: 970

you could catch it early:

            location ~* \.(css|js|ico)$ {
                    try_files $uri =404;
            }

i have a similar setup and that worked for me when i experienced the same thing (just not cake.) I won't lie, i never understood why the try_files w/redirect always failed on existing static files, where as throwing a try_files like ^above finds the file np. ideas on that? (perhaps today is a source-reading day)

Upvotes: 2

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