Actually that does work. Now I'm stumped as to what was the original
problem because I'm pretty sure I had that at one point. At least it's
solved now.

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> 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;
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>
>