On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 05:37:28PM +0200, Alexander Economou wrote:

Hi there,

a few suggestions first, which are *not* related to the reported problem:

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> server {
> listen 80;
> server_name 2.socialwhale.com;
> access_log
> /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/logs/2.socialwhale.log main;
> error_log
> /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/logs/2.socialwhale.err;
> index index.html index.htm index.php;
> root /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/htdocs/website;

Setting "root" there is good. If you don't set it inside a particular
location{} block, that value will be inherited (and available as
$document_root)...

> location ~ \.php$ {
> root
> /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/htdocs/website;

....so you could safely omit that line...

> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> fastcgi_index index.php;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/htdocs/website/$fastcgi_script_name;

....and shorten that line. And then, in future, if you switch directory,
you'll have fewer places to update in the config file.

> include fastcgi_params;

Or, instead, you could "include fastcgi.conf" and omit the SCRIPT_FILENAME
line altogether.

> }
>
> error_page 404 /404.html;
> location = /404.html {
> root /usr/share/nginx/html;
> }
>
>
> location /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/htdocs/website {
> auth_basic "Restricted";
> auth_basic_user_file
> /var/www/cluster-domains/2_socialwhale_com/htpasswd;
> }

That block probably does not do what you want it to. "location" acts on
urls, not file paths. But it's also unrelated to the reported problem.

> Now if i add the following just after the error_page definition
>
> location / {
> try_files $uri $uri/ index.php?$uri&$args;
> }
>
> Nginx says the configuration is ok but php-cgi crashes....

I'd probably use "/index.php" instead of "index.php" up there. Depending
on what you mean by "php-cgi crashes", maybe that will help?

If not, then details of what you see vs what you expect to see will
probably help find the problem.

Good luck with it,

f
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Francis Daly francis@daoine.org

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