Need some help with multiple try_files directives (or alternative!)

[lowercasename (Raphael Kabo)]

Hi all, I’ve just transferred my Caddy server (almost 20 sites) to v2 with almost no trouble, thank you so much for this wonderful server!

I’ve got one hiccup, which is mostly I think because I haven’t quite got my head around the new rewrite directive.

What I’m trying to achieve:

• All requests to site.net/* go to index.php?{query} (which works great!)
• Except requests to site.net/blog/* (which should do the same, but to the subdirectory /blog).

Here’s my attempt:

site.net www.site.net {
  file_server
  root * /var/www/site.net
  php_fastcgi unix//run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock
  try_files {path} {path}/ /index.php?{query}
  try_files /blog/{path} {path}/ /blog/index.php?{query}
  encode gzip
}

Needless to say, this doesn’t work - the second try_files seems to overwrite the first, so all requests get channeled to /blog.

What am I missing?

[francislavoie]

Does it work if you remove both of those try_files lines? The php_fastcgi directive does its own try_files logic that should ideally do the trick. If not, I have another suggestion:

handle /blog* {
    try_files {path} {path}/ /blog/index.php
}

[lowercasename (Raphael Kabo)]

Hi there, I’m so sorry I didn’t reply! handle combined with try_files worked perfectly.

[francislavoie]

Thanks for following up!

For future reference, the reason the handle is needed here is because the try_files directive does not accept a matcher argument because it itself is a shortcut for a file matcher with a rewrite.