Hello!

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 05:44:46PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:

[...]

> > > location /blog/ {
> > > try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
> > > }
> > >
> > > location ~ \.php$ {
> > > include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> > > fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks Igor for your super fast response.
> >
> > I should have mentioned that I'm on ubuntu and therefore nginx 0.5.33
> > ! No try-files.
> >
> > So I must either compile nginx on (unfamilar) ubuntu, or work round the
> > missing try-files.
>
> location /blog/ {
> error_page 404 = /index.php;
> }
>
> location ~ \.php$ {
> include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
> fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> }

BTW, isn't error_page fallback actually better in this case as it
doesn't introduce race condition - while try_files do?

Maxim Dounin