NGINX: How to config domain subdirectory to point to a subfolder — Pavel Tashev

Description

Let’s say your website (e.g. mywebsite.com) is installed in the following directory on your server /var/www/mywebsite and you’d like to install a WordPress blog that can be accessed through the following URL mywebsite.com/blog.

You’ll have to configure NGINX to redirect users requests to a particular directory depending on the requested domain subfolder which in your case is mywebsite.com/blog.

There are two ways to do that.

The Subfolder Isn’t Inside Your Main Folder

The directory structure is the following.

/var/www/mywebsite 
/var/www/blog

Open your NGINX config file which should be located in /etc/nginx/sites-available/mywebsite and the following code (change it according to your needs).

location /blog { 
    alias /var/www/blog; 
    try_files $uri $uri/ @blog; 
    location ~ \.php$ { 
        include fastcgi_params; 
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;             
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; 
    } 
} 
location @blog { 
    rewrite /blog/(.*)$ /blog/index.php?/$1 last; 
}

Check for errors and reload the NGING configurations.

nginx -t 
service nginx reload

The subfolder is inside the main folder

The directory structure is the following.

/var/www/mywebsite 
/var/www/mywebsite/blog

Open your NGINX config file and the following code (change it according to your needs).

location /blog { 
    alias /var/www/mywebsite/blog; 
    try_files $uri $uri/ @blog; 
    location ~ \.php$ { 
        include fastcgi_params; 
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;       
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; 
    } 
} 
location @blog { 
    rewrite /blog/(.*)$ /blog/index.php?/$1 last; 
}

Check for errors and reload the NGING configurations.

nginx -t 
service nginx reload

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Originally published at https://www.paveltashev.com on October 3, 2020.

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