title: Nginx serving a directory as an alias
body: <p>I am trying to use ResourceSpace as an alias on Nginx. The page scripts load well but static files do not load. Access to subdirectories gives an error of <code>undefined index</code></p>
  
  <p>eximmanger loads with all scripts plus static files while resourcespace fails to load static files, loading only the scripts</p>
  
  <p>This is my config </p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
      listen 80;
      server_name myserver.com www.myserver.com;
      server_name_in_redirect off;
  
      access_log /var/log/nginx/myserver.access_log main;
      error_log /var/log/nginx/myserver.error_log info;
  
      location /resourcespace { 
          alias /var/www/html/ResourceSpace/;
  
       }
  
  
      location /eximmanager { 
          alias /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u/;
  
       }
  
      location /100/ { 
             rewrite ^ http://100.myserver permanent;
  
       }
  
  
  
  
     location ~ ^/eximmanger/(.+\.*)$ {
        alias /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u/$1;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  $request_filename;
  
        # From fastcgi_params
  fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
  fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
  fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
  fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
  fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      /var/www/html/exim4u/exim4u; # &lt;-- Changed
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
  fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
  fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
  fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
  fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
      }
  
  
     location ~ ^/resourcespace/(.+\.*)$ {
        alias /var/www/html/ResourceSpace/$1;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME  $request_filename;
  
        # From fastcgi_params
  fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
  fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
  fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
  fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
  fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      /var/www/html/ResourceSpace; # &lt;-- Changed
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
  fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;
  fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
  fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
  fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
      }
  
  
      root /var/www/html/myserver;
      index index.php;
      # Support Clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs
      location / {
              try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri;
      }
  
      index index.php index.html index.htm default.html default.htm;
      # deny running scripts inside writable directories
      location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ {
              return 403;
              error_page 403 /403_error.html;
      }
  
  
  
      location ~ .*.php$ {
          #include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php.socket;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          include fastcgi_params;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  
  
      }
  
      # caching of files 
      location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ {
              expires 1y;
      }
  
      location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ {
              expires 14d;
  </code></pre>