location with php and PHP_SELF

Question

How to setup a location in nginx where SCRIPT_FILENAME is pointing to the current file requested?

server {
    listen  80;
    server_name  xx.xx.xx.xx;

    location /test {
        root  /var/www/test;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include  /var/ini/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_pass  php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/test$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Here I get File not found

But if I change location to this it works

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/test/index.php;

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

you need to set fastcgi_index option and use index.php as its value. This index directive looks up filesystem for index file. So try like:

location ~ \.php$ {
    include  /var/ini/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
    fastcgi_pass  php;
    fastcgi_index  index.php; #add this
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/test$fastcgi_script_name;
}

the index sees /data/www/test/index.php and does internal redirect to /index.php, so the request goes to location ~ \\.php$ and is passed to fastcgi.