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I'm starting with a clean install, empty database.

What would be the changes needed to this Nginx configuration to serve craft from /articles/ instead of "/"?

Any specific configurations that needs to be done to the Craft configs?

I've tried many combinations that all ended in 404.

Current layout:

/srv/www/app/craft <- "craft files"

/srv/www/webroot <- "public webroot"

/srv/www/webroot/articles/ <- "craft index.php here (with path set correctly to craft)".

Thanks.

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If you want to just adjust the folder for the webroot set the root to

/srv/www/webroot/articles/

And in the index.php file make sure the path to the craft folder is

'../../app/craft'

UPDATE:

If you instead want to leave the webroot as is and just have craft run from yourdomain.com/articles you would need to also update the index.php to make sure the craft path is set correct

and in the nginx file add this

location /articles/ {
  try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;  
}

location @rewrites {
   rewrite ^/articles/(.*)$ /articles/index.php?p=$1 last;
}

put that directly above this line, everything else can be the same

location ~ \.php$ {
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  • Actually, the purpose of this sub-directory is that I have another app running from the webroot/, I can't point the server root to articles/. (index.php is set to point to ../../app/craft, and I do get 404 pages from Craft, but not much more.
    – Mathieu P.
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 4:01
  • ok let me update my answer then
    – Keith Mancuso
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 4:06
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    Keith, I think it worked. Initially I still got the 404, but calling /articles/admin/install fired the install process. It ended with a Oops page, but nothing alarming in the craft.log, and all looks operational so far. I will do more testing.
    – Mathieu P.
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 4:57
  • Once inside the CP, I had to add /articles to the end of the site URL under the General Settings, is this normal or should that have been set automatically during install?
    – Mathieu P.
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 6:32
  • Yea that's normal. You can also just site the siteurl in the general.config but craft expects that to be the root of any craft urls it will build
    – Keith Mancuso
    Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 7:10

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