Serving static folders (pass through routing)

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1

Hi guys, I’m trying to serve some content from a folder sitting in the website root called tools.

This folder would contain subfolder, each one of them containing its own index.html, CSS and JS – but Kirby is of course catching the URL and trying to pull the actual content of it, which doesn’t exist in the /content folder.

Is there a way to tell Kirby to let some paths come through, directly, instead of running them through the usual Kirby pipeline?

2

Do you get a Kirby error page?

3

Yes, the usual page not found error page.

4

Hm, but according to these .htaccess rules

# make site links work
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php [L]

requests are only passed through. the index file if the requested file/folder doesn’t exist.

Edit :

In a local test and on a shared hosting server, I could access such an extra folder without any problems.

5

I’m using nginx, at this point I’m getting suspicious the rules are not 1:1 with the ones in the .htaccess – I’ll investigate further, and post back my findings.

For the moment, thank you for this pointer, I think this might be the culprit.

6

Changing

location / {
    rewrite ^.*$ /index.php;
}

into

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
}

Worked. So it indeed was a wrongly translated directive from .htaccess to nginx.
I did (unfortunately) without understanding much the differences between the two and the reason why this works stays a bit obscure to me. I just sniffed around a tried a few options.

If anybody knows the meaning of this change, sharing it would enrich this post considerably.
Thanks for the help.

7

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#try_files

The second example checks the existence of the files first and only redirects if they don’t exist.

8

Hey, for reference, here is our nginx config that is used in production.

This config supports the SRI and cache busting plugin: https://github.com/S1SYPHOS/kirby-sri

And here is my http to https redirect site.