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suchislife
Asked: 2011-04-17 07:20:40 +0800 CST

NGINX User Based Website Directories & Regex

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I want to make use of the alias function in NGINX to accomplish something simple. I have searched the internet for the last 3 days and found nothing but bad or outdated examples and was hoping someone could post a working example based on a newer version of NGINX.

I have the following url:

http://mysite.com/username_123

My question is how do I make NGINX forward this request to the internal user folder:

html/profiles/username_123

...and return its index.php page?

Please keep in mind that this index.php page is passed to the php FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000

nginx

1 Answers

  1. Funny, I had the same problem finding useful information about apache style aliasing or script aliasing. I ended up blogging about it the other day.

    This was tested with nginx version 1.0.5, but should work on 0.85 also.

    server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;
    index index.html index.php;
    root /var/www;
    location ~ ^/username_123(.*)\.php($|/) {
        include php_fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html/profiles/username_123$1.php;
    }
    location ~ ^/username_123(.*) {
        autoindex on;
        alias /var/www/html/profiles/username_123$1;
    }
}
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