Nginx alias and php-fastcgi: No input file specified

Question

I have domain configured as followed:

server {
    listen       80;
    root   /var/www/domains/somedomain/root;

    location = /service/alias/ {
        alias /var/www/service/alias/;
        index index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }
}

I want to execute the index.php file in /var/www/service/alias/ when someone requests http://example.com/service/alias. I've tried many variations (putting the FastCGI parameters in the location and supply the full path for the index.php script), but i keep getting "No input file specified" errors from php-fastcgi.

Anyone an idea of what i'm doing wrong? Or at least how can Ii log the full errors of php-fastcgi?

Answer 1

index is better in a server scope because then all other locations will inheret that value, especially if they are multiple index that are equal, and I like my php block to be as minimal as possible because most other options are already included in fastcgi_params, and I also believe that fastcgi_pass should be passed to an http:// not IP directly, so try this version and tell me if it works for you.

server {
  listen 80;
  # added a server name, unless it's a catch all virtual host
  # then you better use `default_server` with `listen`
  server_name example.com;
  root /var/www/domains/somedomain/root;
  # index moved here
  index index.php;
  location = /service/alias/ {
    # why `=` ? I would remove it unless there's a purpose
    # index removed from here
    alias /var/www/service/alias/;
  }
  location ~* \.php$ {
    #removed all other options
    include fastcgi_params;
    # added `http` before `127.0.0.1`
    fastcgi_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
  }
}