Hello,

at first let me thank you for developing NginX! I use NginX 0.8.48, PHP 5.3.3 with inbuilt php-fpm version 0.6.5 on CentOS 5.5.

But there is one problem I have been trying to solve for hours without success: I want that PHP only gets parsed in an "aliased" subfolder but not in the parent location. Is this even possible?

I tried to achieve my aim in several ways, including this one:

[code]
server
{
listen 80;
server_name subdomain.example.com;
root /var/www/example/html;
index index.html index.php;

# Igor's suggestion from June 2009: forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,3059,3060#msg-3060

location ~ /test/
{
alias /var/www/phpmyadmin/;
}

location ~ ^/test/(.+\.php)$
{
alias /var/www/phpmyadmin/$1;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}

location ~* \.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|cur|bmp)$
{
access_log off;
expires 60d;
}
}
[/code]

PHP should only get parsed in

[color=#0033CC]subdomain.example.com/test/[/color] == [color=#CC3300]/var/www/phpmyadmin/[/color]

but not in

[color=#0033CC]subdomain.example.com/[/color] == [color=#CC3300]/var/www/example/html/[/color]

because another person has access to [color=#CC3300]/var/www/example/html/[/color] via chrooted SFTP, too.

Unfortunately, index.php in [color=#0033CC]subdomain.example.com/test/[/color] (at the moment a simple [color=#999999]<?php phpinfo(); ?>[/color]) doesn't get parsed but is provided for download by Chromium, while Opera shows the source code of the PHP file.

I also tried to nest "[i]location[/i]" directives and to work with "[i]if[/i]", but that didn't work either. For example:

[code]
location ~* /test/
{
alias /var/www/phpmyadmin/;

if ($uri ~ "\.php$")
{
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
[/code]

I know that I could simply use a different subdomain for phpmyadmin, but I wonder if it's possible to use FastCGI / PHP together with the [i]alias[/i] directive.

Any help is appreciated, and if you'd like to see my complete config files, just let me know.

Kind greetings from Austria!
Wolfgang