Set up nginx + php to serve php files from home directories

Question

Here is the relevant part of my nginx.conf, which does not work for php files that are located in the home directories of the users:

  location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ {
     alias /usr/home/$1/www$2;
     autoindex on;
    }

   # Serve user directories php files
    location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*\.php)$ {
        alias /usr/home/$1/www;
        try_files $2 =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /~$1$fastcgi_script_name;
        }

    location ~ \.php$ {
         try_files $uri =404;
         fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
         fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
         fastcgi_index index.php;
         fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
         include fastcgi_params;       
        }

What errors do you get in the log files? What do you get instead of the php ....? — quadruplebucky, Jun 16 '17 at 06:58

Richard Smith · Answer 1 · 2017-06-14T08:46:17.110

You can use a nested location block to handle the .php files. For example.

location ~ ^/~(?<user>.+?)(?<path>/.*)?$ {
    alias /usr/home/$user/www$path;
    autoindex on;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }

        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
    }
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    ...
}

See this document for more.

EDIT: I realised I needed to use named captures as the numeric captures go out of scope.

Set up nginx + php to serve php files from home directories

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