On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 06:33:59PM -0700, Chris Cortese wrote:

> I finally found the solution to my problem with getting 404 on static
> assets (/images, /js, /css).
>
> Not sure how I missed it before but I saw the problem in the error log
> now. Basically I was not understanding that the root path needed to be
> relative to the location of the nginx.exe (c:\nginx\nginx.exe).

Actually in nginx/Windows root is relative to the directory where nginx
was run.

> Changing "/cygwin/..." to "../cygwin/..." was my solution. I didn't
> have a problem with the non-static stuff (PHP) because all of that was
> handled by fastcgi, which expected the full windows path
> ("c:/cygwin/..."). Below is my working config.
>
> server {
> listen *:80;
> server_name jobsite.xpdesktop;
>
> access_log logs/jobsite.access.log;
> error_log logs/jobsite.error.log;
>
> root ../cygwin/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public; # this

Does not this work:

root C:/cygwin/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public;

?

> was the fix
> index index.php index.html;
>
> # serve static files directly
> location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|pdf|zip|tar|gz|bz|bz2)$ {
> }
>
> location / {
> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> c:/cygwin/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public/index.php;
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING q=$request_uri;
> include fastcgi_params;
> }
>
> location ~ /.php$ {
> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> fastcgi_index index.php;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> c:/cygwin/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public$fastcgi_script_name;
> fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING q=$request_uri;
> include fastcgi_params;
> }
>
> location = /css/style.php {
> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> c:/cygwin/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public/css/style.php;
> include fastcgi_params;
> }
> }
>

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