www_root is not being added correctly

[SoldierCorp]

I'm working with puppet, capistrano and other technologies to make a deployment structure using Laravel but I have a problem using the nginx puppet because I want to know why the www_root is not being adding outside a location like the index_files parameter because inside a location is not working. And if it's not working couldn't work correctly with my deployment.

Conf

class { 'nginx':  }

nginx::resource::vhost { $vhost:
  ensure => present,
  www_root => $docroot,
  index_files => [ 'index.php' ],
  location_cfg_append => {
    'rewrite' => '^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent',
    'try_files $uri $uri/' => '/index.php?query_string'
  }
}

nginx::resource::location { $vhost:
  ensure          => present,
  vhost           => $vhost,
  www_root        => $docroot,
  location        => '~ \.php$',
  index_files     => ['index.php', 'index.html', 'index.htm'],
  proxy           => undef,
  fastcgi         => "127.0.0.1:9000",
  fastcgi_script  => undef,
  location_cfg_append => {
    fastcgi_index   => ['index.php']
  },
  fastcgi_param  => {
    'SCRIPT_FILENAME' => '$document_root$fastcgi_script_name'
  },

}

Not working

server {
  listen *:80;
  server_name           local.example.com;

  index  index.php;

  access_log            /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log combined;
  error_log             /var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;

  location / {
    root      /var/www/ratestore/src/public/;
    rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?query_string;
  }
  ....
}

Working

server {
  listen *:80;
  server_name           local.example.com;

  root      /var/www/ratestore/src/public/;

  index  index.php;

  access_log            /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log combined;
  error_log             /var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;

  location / {
    rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?query_string;
  }

  .....

}

[sirgt]

I'm having the same problem, root inside location doesn't work.

Temporarily I fixed this on my puppet server like this

[michaelmeelis]

I have the same problem using this module too install Laravel as well. It would be great if this can be resolved.

[jassik]

@SoldierCorp You need to set use_default_location => false for the module to add root /var/www/ratestore/src/public/; outside the location blocks, in your vhost resource declaration. This will also disable creation of the "location /" block by default in your vhost. So now you also need to declare another location resource for your default location / , something like this:

nginx::resource::location { "${vhost}_default":
  ensure          => present,
  vhost             => $vhost,
  #www_root        => $docroot, #not sure why this is not working for your default case
  location         => '/',
  rewrite_rules => ["^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent"],
  try_files         => ["$uri", "$uri/", "/index.php?query_string"],
  ....

[wyardley]

I opened #902 recently about the same issue. I do think the behavior is somewhat improved now (there's an error, just not a useful one), but I hope we can improve this.

[wyardley]

Closing this since #902 is open.