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None of the configurations that I've looked up can help with setting up Nginx to serve PHP files on a mounted USB folder. I'm currently getting file not found when I try and access a PHP file on the USB but PHP displays correctly when accessing it on the default folder /usr/share/nginx/www.

In other words, If I have a test.php in /media/usb/downloads/ and try to access sitename.com/usb/test.php I get file not found. But, if i place it in /usr/share/nginx/www/ it works. In both cases, static files work fine.

I have installed nginx and php5-fpm with defaults but added the following changes:

nginx/sites-enabled/default

location /usb/ {
    alias /media/usb/downloads/;
    autoindex on;
    allow 127.0.0.1;
    allow ::1;
    #deny all;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    include fastcgi_params;
}
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I have a strong suspicion that this is happening because the location ~ \.php$ directive is sending the http://sitename.com/usb/index.php request as is to unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock and it doesn't find a /usb/ directory on the server.

Have you considered using a link (ln) called usb in our root directory to /media/usb/downloads instead using the location alias?

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Perfect!! I used a symbolic link and it worked! I wish there was better documentation on how to actually do this through the nginx configuration files. – Andres Sep 21 '12 at 15:11

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