On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 07:09:43PM -0400, avi9526 wrote:
Hi there,
> Trying to serve nagios web GUI through nginx.
> location ~ "^/nagios/(.+?\.php)(/.*)?$"
> {
> alias "/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs/";
> try_files $1 $uri $uri/ /nagios/index.php;
> location ~* ^/cgi-bin/nagios3/(.+?\.cgi)$
> {
> alias "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3/";
> try_files $1 $uri $uri/ =404;
> it's seems to be working. If i change "alias" to "root" and uncomment
> "rewrite" directive for both php and cgi scripts it will work as well. So,
> what the difference?
http://nginx.org/r/root and http://nginx.org/r/alias.
Note that "alias" and "try_files" do have some unobvious interactions,
especially in a regex location. See http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/97
for some details.
Your configuration works because of your non-typical "try_files"
directive. I suspect that not all of the four arguments are ever used --
but it does depend on the incoming request, the files on the file system,
and how you want them to be matched together.
> And why most online manuals suggests to use "root"
> followed by rewrite?
I don't see that.
I see some suggesting root and rewrite; and some suggesting root; and
some suggesting alias.
I suspect that it depends on where things are installed.
f
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