Nginx configuration for two roots

Question

I'm using the Kirby CMS and out of the box it comes with this tree structure where everything is on the webroot:

├── assets
│   ├── css
│   │   └── main.css
│   └── js
│       └── main.js
├── content
├── kirby
├── panel
│   ├── assets
│   │   ├── main.css
│   │   └── main.js
│   └── index.php
├── site
└── index.php

This way I can access the site via https://example.com and the panel via https://example.com/panel.

I want to leave only the site index.php on the webroot and came up with the following structure:

├── content
├── kirby
├── panel
│   ├── assets
│   │   ├── main.css
│   │   └── main.js
│   └── index.php
├── public
│   ├── css
│   │   └── main.css
│   ├── js
│   │   └── main.js
│   └── index.php
└── site

I were able to get the site to work with Nginx by appending /public to the root directive:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name example.com;
    root /home/example.com/public;

    # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    # ssl_certificate;
    # ssl_certificate_key;

    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:AES:CAMELLIA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK:!aECDH:!EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA:!EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:!KRB5-DES-CBC3-SHA';
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    # Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC
    location ~ \.(jpe?g|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
      expires 1M;
      access_log off;
      add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }

    # CSS and Javascript
    location ~ \.(css|js)$ {
      expires 1y;
      access_log off;
      add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }

    # Removes trailing slashes
    if (!-d $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    # Panel links
    location /panel {
        index index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /panel/index.php?$query_string;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/example.com-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Now, how can and I get the panel to point to the new location and respond to the PHP request and serve assets?

You can duplicate that nginx configuration into another file and change the root to `root /home/example.com/panel;` — Edson Horacio Junior, Feb 23 '17 at 19:33
Yes, I have a similar case and I solved it with two nginx config files, each file has the name of url, example: `/etc/nginx/sites-available/admin.system.com` and `/etc/nginx/sites-available/photos.system.com`. The only thing I changed was the `root` inside of the files, pointing to the specific directory that has index.php inside. — Edson Horacio Junior, Feb 23 '17 at 19:58

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '20 at 09:21

You can try something like this.

    root /home/example.com;
    ...
    location /public {
        index index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/public/ /public/index.php?$query_string;
    }
    location /panel {
        index index.php;
        try_files $uri $uri/panel/ /panel/index.php?$query_string;
    }

Nginx configuration for two roots

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