Question

I’ve recently decided to switch from Apache2 to Nginx. I installed Nginx on my CentOS server and setup a basic configuration.
When I tried to load my site in browser (FF/Chrome) I noticed that css file is not loaded. I checked the error console and saw this message:

Error: The stylesheet http://example.com/style.css was not loaded because its MIME type, "text/html", is not "text/css".

I checked Nginx configuration and everything seems to be fine:

http {
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    ..........
}

The mime type for css files is correctly set in /etc/nginx/mime.types.

text/css css;

Everything seems to be well configured but my css files are still not loaded. I have no explanation.

Another thing worth mentioning. Initially I installed Nginx using epel repositories and i got an old version: 0.8… It appeared to me that my problem was a bug in that version so I uninstalled 0.8 version, added nginx repository to yum and then installed latest version: 1.0.14. I thought the new version will solve my problem, but unfortunately it didn’t so I am running out of ideas.

I appreciate any help.

Configuration files:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log warn;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    #gzip  on;

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

/etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  localhost;

    #charset koi8-r;
    #access_log  /var/log/nginx/log/host.access.log  main;

    location / {
         root    /usr/share/nginx/html;
         index  index.html index.htm index.php;
         fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
         fastcgi_index  index.php;
         fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /usr/share/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
         include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    #error_page  404              /404.html;

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    # proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
    #}

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    root           html;
    #    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    #    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    #    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /scripts$fastcgi_script_name;
    #    include        fastcgi_params;
    #}

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    #location ~ /\.ht {
    #    deny  all;
    #}
}

/etc/nginx/mime.types

types {
    text/html                             html htm shtml;
    text/css                              css;
    text/xml                              xml;
    image/gif                             gif;
    image/jpeg                            jpeg jpg;
    application/x-javascript              js;
    application/atom+xml                  atom;
    application/rss+xml                   rss;
    ..........................................
    other types here
    ..........................................
}

Answer 1

I found an workaround on the web. I added to /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf the following:

location ~ \.css {
    add_header  Content-Type    text/css;
}
location ~ \.js {
    add_header  Content-Type    application/x-javascript;
}

The problem now is that a request to my css file isn’t redirected well, as if root is not correctly set.
In error.log I see

2012/04/11 14:01:23 [error] 7260#0: *2 open() “/etc/nginx//html/style.css”

So as a second workaround I added the root to each defined location.
Now it works, but seems a little redundant. Isn’t root inherited from / location ?