I got this error message when trying to set WordPress as a subdirectory. File not found. when view the URL example.com/blog
2020/05/05 20:55:56 [error] 906#906: *1 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, server: example.com, request: "GET /blog/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock:", host: "example.com"
example.conf
server {
server_name example.com www.example.com;
root /var/www/example/public;
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;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
location /blog {
alias /var/www/blog;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
}
Please try this config instead
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.vm www.example.vm;
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;
location / {
root /var/www/laravel/public;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
error_page 404 /index.php;
location /blog {
root /var/www/;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
}
Final updated answer tested and works. The issue here is the location path setting of alias/root directory. Maybe you can refer to this for more info in future. Configure nginx with multiple locations with different root folders on subdomain