Nginx not getting root right directory

Question

I a trying to make an angular app with an api. Every route should go to the angular app, except the API route. The API route should go to an laravel project. But the API route(/api) won't work, it just redirects to the angular app. And when I remove the angular app route(/) I am able to get an error at /api.

This is my config file:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.nl *.example.nl;

        access_log /home/example/logs/access.log;
        error_log /home/example/logs/error.log;

        root /home/example/public_html;

        location /api {
                root /home/example/public_api/public;
                index index.php;

                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

                location ~ \.php$ {
                        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
                }
        }

        location / {
                index index.html;
                try_files $uri$args $uri$args/ /index.html;
        }
}

When I removed the last block I was able to get an error: open() "/usr/share/nginx/html/index.php" failed (2: No such file or directory)

But I am saying root /home/example/public_api/public;. Why it is picking /usr/share/nginx/html?

/usr/share/nginx/html is my default route.

Update

Nginx is now reading the right directory, but PHP is broken, this is my updated config file:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.nl *.example.nl;

        access_log /home/example/logs/access.log;
        error_log /home/example/logs/error.log;

        root /home/example/public_html;

        location /api {
                alias /home/example/public_api/public;
                index index.php;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

                location ~ \.php$ {
                        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
                }
        }

        location / {
                index index.html;
                try_files $uri$args $uri$args/ /index.html;
        }
}

In the error log I am getting:

FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream

This is the content I get in the browser: File not found.

And this is the curl content(/api): <html> <head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head> <body bgcolor="white"> <center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center> <hr><center>nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu)</center> </body> </html>

And this is the curl content of /api/index.php: File not found.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '17 at 20:42

After a lot of searching I finally found the answer:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.nl *.example.nl;

        access_log /home/example/logs/access.log;
        error_log /home/example/logs/error.log;

        root /home/example/public_html;

        location ^~ /api {
                alias /home/example/public_api/public;
                try_files $uri $uri/ @laravel;
                index index.php;

                location ~ \.php$ {
                        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
                        include fastcgi_params;
                        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/example/public_api/public/index.php;
                }
        }

        location @laravel {
                rewrite /api/(.*)$ /api/index.php?/$1 last;
        }


        location / {
                index index.html;
                try_files $uri$args $uri$args/ /index.html;
        }
}

Nginx not getting root right directory

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