Today, I had to deploy some code onto an nginx server. I like nginx because while it’s not as easy to use straight out of the box as apache, it’s not too hard to configure and it’s very fast.
I set up my virtual host:
server {
server_name sub.domain.net;
...
root /var/www/sub.domain.net/public/;
...
}
… and I checked the site. Server error?!
Failed opening required '/var/www/sub.domain.net/public../app/...
I know I put the trailing slash in the document root, so why is nginx stripping it?
The solution is in /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params. Just change:
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
into
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root/;
and restart nginx. It feels like a bit of a hack, but you now have the trailing slash you need.
