Nginx location configuration (subfolders)

To access a path like /var/www/mysite/manage/public with a URI like /manage, you will need to use alias rather than root. See this document for details.

I am assuming that you need to run PHP from both roots, in which case you will need two location ~ \.php blocks, see example below. If you have no PHP within /var/www/mysite/static, you can delete the unused location block.

For example:

server {    listen 80;    server_name  example.org;    error_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/error.log;    access_log /usr/local/etc/nginx/logs/mysite/access.log;    root /var/www/mysite/static;    index index.html;    location / {    }    location ~ \.php$ {        try_files $uri =404;        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;        include fastcgi_params;        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;    }    location ^~ /manage {        alias /var/www/mysite/manage/public;        index index.php;        if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^ /manage/index.php last; }        location ~ \.php$ {            if (!-f $request_filename) { return 404; }            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;            include fastcgi_params;            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;        }    }}

The ^~ modifier causes the prefix location to take precedence over regular expression locations at the same level. See this document for details.

The alias and try_files directives are not together due to this long standing bug.

Be aware of this caution in the use of the if directive.