Alias + fastcgi

Server NGINX
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Using aliases with fast cgi results in… strange results.

With this config:

    location /cgi-bin/ {
            alias /home/nagios/nagios/sbin;
            include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
    }

, if you request /cgi-bin/test.cgi, $document_root is changed to
/home/nagios/nagios/sbin, as you would expect. However,
$fastcgi_script_name remains /cgi-bin/test.cgi. Shouldn’t
$fastcgi_script_name and $uri be changed to reflect that fact that this
is operating inside the alias? I would think $fastcgi_script_name and
$uri would both be /test.cgi, and not include the “/cgi-bin”.

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On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, sonicsnes [email protected] wrote:

Using aliases with fast cgi results in… strange results.

yes you will. And you will also waste several hours trying to solve it.

(personal tips: forget alias, use symlink instead)

3

You sir, are brilliant. I’ve done this before, and completely,
completely forgot about it. However, perhaps this “bug” should be fixed
eventually :wink:

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On 18 Jul 2011 02h16 WEST, [email protected] wrote:

, if you request /cgi-bin/test.cgi, $document_root is changed to
/home/nagios/nagios/sbin, as you would expect. However,
$fastcgi_script_name remains /cgi-bin/test.cgi. Shouldn’t
$fastcgi_script_name and $uri be changed to reflect that fact that
this is operating inside the alias? I would think
$fastcgi_script_name and $uri would both be /test.cgi, and not
include the “/cgi-bin”.

Try:

location ~* /cgi-bin/(?.+.cgi)$ {
root /home/nagios/nagios/sbin;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $script;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$script;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
}

— appa