nginx and symfony | dave dash

[tags]nginx, server, symfony[/tags]

I almost gave up on nginx and was going to settle on lighttpd or Apache, but I decided to check the symfony list and in minutes Kiril Angov (Kupokomapa) answered with a working nginx configuration. This is why I like the symfony community :)

Here’s what works (Note: This requires a running FastCGI server):

server {
  listen       80;
  server_name  mysite.com *;
  root /var/www/mysite.com/web;
  index  index.php;

  charset utf-8;

  location / {
    # If the file exists as a static file serve it directly without
    # running all the other rewite tests on it
    if (-f $request_filename) {
      expires max; 
      break; 
    }

    if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$") {
      rewrite ^(.*) /index.php last;
    }
  }

  location ~ \.php($|/) {
    set  $script     $uri;
    set  $path_info  "";

    if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") {
      set  $script     $1;
      set  $path_info  $2;
    }

    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;

    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/mysite.com/web$script;
    fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO        $path_info;
  }
}

This works in my Ubuntu instance of nginx. Other customziations to this might need to occur, but it’s fairly solid so far.