Drupal 8 in a subdirectory with nginx
Assuming this nginx configuration as a starting point:
root /var/www/example.org/web;
location / {
try_files $uri @rewrite;
}
location @rewrite {
rewrite ^ /index.php;
}
You can configure your Drupal 8 instance to run in a subdirectory of the site with two simple steps.
In this example we change the instance’s base url from http://example.org/ to http://example.org/subdir/.
1. Change nginx configuration
Replace the ‘location /’ block with this:
location ~ /subdir/(.*) {
try_files /$1 @rewrite;
}
2. Change Drupal settings.php
Add the following to your settings.php (or settings.X.php):
if(isset($GLOBALS['request'])) {
$scriptName = $GLOBALS['request']->server->get('SCRIPT_NAME');
$scriptName = preg_match('#^/subdir/#', $scriptName) ? : "/subdir$scriptName";
$GLOBALS['request']->server->set('SCRIPT_NAME', $scriptName);
}
… and that’s it!
Hopefully there will be a cleaner way of doing this in the future…
Tested with Drupal 8.1.6.
Nginx custom autoindex without FancyIndex
Sending your friends an open directory in your site isn’t fun unless it has random ASCII art under it. :-)
Nginx lets one customise the look of open directories using the FancyIndex module. Unfortunately Debian Wheezy doesn’t include this module, unless you get nginx-extras from the wheezy-backports repository. As an alternative, I chose to hack up something in PHP for a similar effect.