example :

http://website1.website.com/abc.gif <--- can display .gif

http://website1.website.com/phpmyadmin/mylogo.gif < ---- can't dispaly .gif

the config file as below :

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- user username username; worker_processes 8; error_log /var/log/nginx_error.log crit; pid /usr/local/webserver/nginx/nginx.pid;

#Specifies the value for maximum file descriptors that can be opened by this
process. worker_rlimit_nofile 51200;

events { use epoll; worker_connections 51200; }

http { include mime.types; default_type application/octet-stream; server_names_hash_bucket_size 128; client_header_buffer_size 32k; large_client_header_buffers 4 32k; client_max_body_size 8m; sendfile on; tcp_nopush on; keepalive_timeout 60; tcp_nodelay on;

fastcgi_connect_timeout 300; fastcgi_send_timeout 300; fastcgi_read_timeout 300; fastcgi_buffer_size 64k; fastcgi_buffers 4 64k; fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 128k; fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 128k;

gzip on; gzip_min_length 1k; gzip_buffers 4 16k; gzip_http_version 1.0; gzip_comp_level 2; gzip_types text/plain application/x-javascript text/css application/xml; gzip_vary on;

#limit_zone crawler $binary_remote_addr 10m;

server { listen 80; server_name website1.website.com; index index.html index.htm index.php; root /home/httpd/html/website1;

location /phpmyadmin/ { alias /home/httpd/html/phpmyadmin/; index index.php index.html index.htm; auth_basic "Restricted"; auth_basic_user_file /home/httpd/html/phpmyadmin/.htpasswd; }

location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.*\.php)$ { alias /home/httpd/html/phpmyadmin/$1; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; include fcgi.conf; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename; }

location ~ .*\.(php|php5)?$ { #fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-cgi.sock; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; include fcgi.conf; }

location ~ .*\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|bmp|swf)$ { expires 30d; }

location ~ .*\.(js|css)?$ { expires 1h; }

log_format access '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" $http_x_forwarded_for'; access_log /var/log/access.log access; }

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