Symfony app under symlinked dir, subpath handled by file_server instead of php_fastcgi

[francislavoie]

My hunch is that Caddy isn’t finding an index.php file to rewrite to. Do you have an index.php file at /var/www/demo.orbitale.io/repos/faker_online/public/index.php?

Can you post your full debug logs for a request you expect to work? Ideally it should show information about the rewrites happening.

I wrote a pretty in-depth explanation about a week ago on how the php_fastcgi directive works. Read this and see if the points align with the behaviour you’re seeing:

Php-fastcgi only serving .php files or wildcard possible

To further explain, it’s a good idea to look at the expanded form of the php_fastcgi directive: So basically: The first chunk deals with redirecting requests where the path is a directory on disk which contains an index.php file. This also does nothing if the path already ends with a /. So for example it would redirect the request to path /foo to /foo/ (appending a /, to canonicalize the path to the directory), if /foo/index.php exists on disk. The next chunk deals with doing path rewri…

@Pierstoval

I also tried removing the file_server directive, and what happens is interesting:
The request to /fake/ now returns an HTTP 200, but … the Symfony app isn’t called. And I know it because according to the source code (you can see it here), it shouldn’t return an empty HTTP 200 Response. The reponse must at least contain Results:<br>. Which isn’t the case here. That’s how I know the Symfony app isn’t even called.

If you remove file_server, then there’s no directive that ends up handling the request, so you encounter Caddy’s default behaviour, which is to respond with an empty HTTP 200. That’s because “technically it worked as configured”, you didn’t configure Caddy to actually do anything with the request so it’s not actually an error on Caddy’s part.

@Pierstoval

I tried adding the resolve_root_symlink directive in the php_fastcgi block, but it changed nothing.

I think in this case, you’ll definitely need this, otherwise Caddy won’t resolve the symlink before passing the request onto your php-fpm service.