Question: I'm trying to set up an alias so when someone accesses `/phpmyadmin/`, nginx will pull it from `/home/phpmyadmin/` rather than from the usual document root. However, everytime I pull up the URL, it gives me a 404 on all items not pulled through fastcgi. fastcgi seems to be working fine, whereas the rest is not. `strace` is telling me it's trying to pull everything else from the usual document root, yet I can't figure out why. Can anyone provide some insight?

Here is the relevant part of my config:

```
location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$
{
        include fcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_pass  unix:/tmp/php-cgi.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home$fastcgi_script_name;
}

location /phpmyadmin
{
        alias /home/phpmyadmin/;
}

```

Answer: 
I'm not sure but have you tried writing it this way:

```
location /phpmyadmin/
{
        alias /home/phpmyadmin/;
}

```

Also, what's the URI from which you are trying to access it?

As far as I understand it, you have to use the URI

```
/home/phpmyadmin/

```

and not just

```
/phpmyadmin/

```

You can read more about it here: <http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule>
Try

```
location ^~ /phpMyAdmin/
{
    alias /home/phpmyadmin/;

    location ~ \.php$
    {
        include fcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_pass  unix:/tmp/php-cgi.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

```