example :

http://website1.website.com/abc.gif <--- can display .gif

http://website1.website.com/phpmyadmin/mylogo.gif < ---- can't dispaly .gif

the config file as below :


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user username username;
worker_processes 8;
error_log /var/log/nginx_error.log crit;
pid /usr/local/webserver/nginx/nginx.pid;

#Specifies the value for maximum file descriptors that can be opened by this process.
worker_rlimit_nofile 51200;

events
{
use epoll;
worker_connections 51200;
}

http
{
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;
client_header_buffer_size 32k;
large_client_header_buffers 4 32k;
client_max_body_size 8m;
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
keepalive_timeout 60;
tcp_nodelay on;

fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
fastcgi_buffer_size 64k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 64k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 128k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 128k;

gzip on;
gzip_min_length 1k;
gzip_buffers 4 16k;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_types text/plain application/x-javascript text/css application/xml;
gzip_vary on;

#limit_zone crawler $binary_remote_addr 10m;

server
{
listen 80;
server_name website1.website.com;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
root /home/httpd/html/website1;


location /phpmyadmin/ {
alias /home/httpd/html/phpmyadmin/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
auth_basic "Restricted";
auth_basic_user_file /home/httpd/html/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd;
}

location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.*\.php)$ {
alias /home/httpd/html/phpmyadmin/$1;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fcgi.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
}

location ~ .*\.(php|php5)?$
{
#fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-cgi.sock;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fcgi.conf;
}

location ~ .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp|swf)$
{
expires 30d;
}

location ~ .*\.(js|css)?$
{
expires 1h;
}

log_format access '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" $http_x_forwarded_for';
access_log /var/log/access.log access;
}

}