I am in the process of switching my apache to an nginx server, and everything appears to have gone smoothly, aside from the configuration for my api. My old configuration under apache relied on an .htacess file in the root directory to redirect all requests to the angular entry point (in this case index.php) as follows:
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
# If the request is a file, folder or symlink that exists, serve it up
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ - [S=1]
# otherwise, serve your index.html app
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /index.php
# - See more at: http://newmediascientist.com/posts/redirecting-into-angularjs-for-friendly-urls/#sthash.5Oln1Wzh.dpuf
My api is located under the http://localhost.local/api directory, has a index.php file which acts as the controller, so Angular makes its REST calls to http://localhost.local/api/index.php/{{ctrl}}/{{id}}?q={{other params}}
I cannot seem to get this same configuration to work under nginx, any request is automatically redirected to the /index.php file (the Angular entry point) and not to the api entry point. Now I am not dead set on using localhost.local/api/index.php?{{ctrl}}... in fact I would prefer a cleaner localhost.local/api/{{ctrl}} etc...
I was just unable to achieve that on my previous server. My current non-working nginx configuration is as follows:
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/htdocs;
index index.php;
server_name localhost.local;
access_log /var/log/nginx/temperatures.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/temperatures.error.log debug;
add_header "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=Edge,chrome=1";
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location /api {
index /api/index.php;
try_files /api/index.php/$uri?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated on this!
Edit Also tried the following which gives the correct url to the server, however it doesn't pass it to php.
location ~ /api/ {
rewrite ^/api(/.*)$ /api/index.php$1 break;
}
Edit 2 Modifying the code to this:
location ~ /api/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php$is_args$args;
location ~ ^/api/index.php(.*)$ {
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
yields the best results, as I can get the server to respond properly to a normal request (api/{{collection}}/{{id}} however if I add in a GET param it breaks the entire process as there is no longer a seperation between the request_uri and the get params as there was with Apache's PATH_INFO.