I am having trouble configuring nginx to serve up PHP from outside of
the server document root. For example, this site's root is
/usr/local/www/site1/wordpress and phpMyAdmin is located in
/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin. I cannot access servername.com/phpmyadmin.
nginx logs the following error:

====================================================================
2014/01/09 09:56:20 [error] 39387#0: *6160 FastCGI sent in stderr:
"Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream,
client: clientIP, server: serverhostname, request: "GET /phpmyadmin/
HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock:", host:
"serverhostname"
====================================================================

The WordPress site, however, is served without error. Therefore, nginx
is refusing to serve PHP from outside of the server document root.
Please see the following configuration:


nginx.conf
====================================================================
user www www;
worker_processes 1;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
error_log logs/error.log info;

events {
worker_connections 768;
use kqueue;
}

http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;

server {
listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name servername.com;
ssl_certificate crt-chain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key key.pem;
ssl_dhparam dhparam4096.pem;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM
EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384
EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA RC4 !a
NULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS !RC4";
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

root /usr/local/www/site1/wordpress;
index index.php;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/usr/local/www/site1/wordpress$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

#----------------------PROBLEM AREA----------------------#

location /phpmyadmin/ {
alias /usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin/;
index index.php index.html;
}

location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.*\.php)$ {
fastcgi_param PHP_ADMIN_VALUE
open_basedir=/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;

#----------------------PROBLEM AREA----------------------#

}
}
}
====================================================================


I am obviously lacking some required configuration. Perhaps in
nginx.conf, php-fpm.conf, or php.ini. Could someone please advise me of
my error and how to correct it? Thank you.

Strangely, in Apache, I simply required an alias entry, such as:

Alias /phpmyadmin "/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin"
<Directory "/usr/local/www/phpMyAdmin">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

in my httpd.conf file even when the server root was above this location
and with the exact same PHP settings (php.ini) as I now have with nginx.

Server intel:
# uname -a
FreeBSD hostname 9.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE #0 r255898: Thu Sep 26
22:50:31 UTC 2013
root@bake.isc.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64

# nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.5.7
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr/local/etc/nginx --with-cc-opt='-I
/usr/local/include' --with-ld-opt='-L /usr/local/lib'
--conf-path=/usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
--sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin/nginx --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
--error-log-path=/var/log/nginx-error.log --user=www --group=www
--with-ipv6 --with-google_perftools_module
--http-client-body-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/client_body_temp
--http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/fastcgi_temp
--http-proxy-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/proxy_temp
--http-scgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/scgi_temp
--http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/tmp/nginx/uwsgi_temp
--http-log-path=/var/log/nginx-access.log --with-http_addition_module
--with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_dav_module
--with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module
--with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_gunzip_module
--with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_mp4_module
--with-http_perl_module --with-http_random_index_module
--with-http_realip_module --with-http_secure_link_module
--with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_sub_module
--with-http_xslt_module --with-pcre --with-http_spdy_module --with-mail
--with-mail_ssl_module --with-http_ssl_module


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