nginx configuration. Yii project in separate directory [not in root] - configuration

Question

I spent over 6 hours on this trouble.
I have nginx/1.2.7 server, and php-fpm on 127.0.0.1:9000.
I have base nginx config:
server
{
listen 80;
server_name example.org www.example.org;
index index.php index.html;
access_log /srv/www/example.org/logs/access.log;
error_log /srv/www/example.org/logs/error.log;
location /
{
root /var/www/html/example.org/public_html;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
location ~ \.php$
{
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
And it works fine! All php files work like they must.
But I have some separate yii-project, which need to execute in other than main root folder.
And I have this configuration added at bottom:
Where /srv/www/example.org/yiitest — it is a root of yiitest project (with 'protected' folder and other inside it).
location /yiitest
{
root /srv/www/example.org/yiitest;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
location ~ \.php$
{
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
But it doesn't work. I've got 'File not found'.
And maximum what I can get, it is: example.org/yiitest/ the main page works fine.
And if I go to example.org/yiitest/site/contact/ I'll get file not found. :(
I can't understand, how to correctly setup yii-project in separate subdirectory of a server.

Answer 1

create symlink
cd /var/www/html/example.org/public_html
ln -s ../yiitest/public yiitest
configure nginx
root /var/www/html/example.org/public_html;
location / {
...
}
location /yiitest/ {
index index.php;
# front end
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /yiitest/index.php last;
break;
}
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1: 9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Then configure yii framework. You should set 'basePath' in your config:
<?php
return array(
'basePath' => 'yiitest',
...
);