Configure nginx to run subsites - php

Question

I was able to set up nginx server blocks as per tutorials. When I try to access the sites through the respective domain names I am directed to the same site.
I have been trying to multiple the subsite of /site1 under localhost in windows.
nginx.conf
#user nobody;
# worker_processes 1;
worker_processes auto;
# error_log logs/error.log;
# error_log logs/error.log notice;
# error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include 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 logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
#gzip on;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log logs/host.access.log main;
location / {
root H:\www\html;
index index.html index.htm;
}
#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 H:\www\html;
}
# this is the default server
location = /site1 {
return 301 /site1/;
}
location ^~ /site1/ {
root H:\www\html\drupal-8.1.10;
index index.php;
}
location ~ /site1/\.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9123;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
}
www directory:
H:\www\html>tree /f
Folder PATH listing for volume 975
Volume serial number is 0000-043C
H:.
│ 50x.html
│ index.html
│ drupal.tar.gz
│
└───drupal-8.1.10
index.php
The potential URL should be:
localhost
localhost/site1
Thanks

Answer 1

In Windows use:
nginx path on the same drive e.g:
H:/nginx
pid full absolute path e.g:
pid H:/nginx/logs/nginx.pid;
error logs enable e.g (uncoment):
error_log logs/error.log;
error_log logs/error.log notice;
error_log logs/error.log info;
set|enable output log format
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
correct root into server block is (in double ""):
server{
location /{
root "H:/nginx/www/html";
}
}
correct php fastCGI params e.g:
server{
location ~ /site1/\.php$ {
root www/html/site1
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME C:/nginx/www/html/site1$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Well I think that's it.
All root settings must be enclosed in double quotes and normal bar (/) do not forget to see the log of errors ... it says a lot :)
My sample configuration:
init.bat (to start|close service)[can not serve you]
#ECHO OFF
TITLE LOCALHOST SERVICE
REM GO TO NGINX DIR
CD C:/nginx
TASKLIST /FI "IMAGENAME eq nginx.exe" | FIND /I "nginx.exe" > NUL && (GOTO STOP) || (GOTO START)
:START
ECHO.
ECHO ---------------------------- STARTING NGINX SERVER ----------------------------
ECHO.
REM START NGINX SERVICE
START/MIN nginx.exe
ECHO.
ECHO ----------------------------- STARTER PHP SERVICE -----------------------------
ECHO.
REM START PHP SERVICE (FOR NGINX)
php/php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000 -c C:/nginx/php/php.ini
REM GO TO "END" BLOCK FOR DON'T EXECUTE "STOP" BLOCK ¬¬
GOTO END
:STOP
REM QUIT|STOP NGINX SERVICE
REM OLD-COMMAND: START nginx.exe -s quit
TASKKILL /F /IM nginx.exe > NUL
REM STOP PHP SERVICE
TASKKILL /F /IM php-cgi.exe > NUL
GOTO END
:END
Ok the init.bat file lets you start or stop nginx and php with just a double-click simple.
You can add it there someone icon and place it in such work area.
Assuming php run in a subdirectory nginx would have the following structure:
// System hard drive (in my case)
---C:
| // nginx path
|--------nginx
|
|---nginx.exe //executable
|
|---conf // configurations path
|
|---logs // logs path
|
|---pid // path to pid your proccess
|
|---html // path to your server (or blocks)
|
|---mime.types // archive list mime types
|
|---init.bat // optinal
A good practice is to use server-blocks even if they do not use subdomains.
For this create a folder in "C:/nginx/conf" called "sites-enabled" and make a "backup" of your nginx configuration file "C:/nginx/conf/nginx.conf" for such "nginx.conf.bk".
The new configuration file would look like this:
nginx.conf (modified)
# Configuration File - Nginx Server Configs
# http://nginx.org/en/docs/dirindex.html
# Run as a unique, less privileged user for security reasons.
# user www www;
# Sets the worker threads to the number of CPU cores available in the system for best performance.
# Should be > the number of CPU cores.
# Maximum number of connections = worker_processes * worker_connections
worker_processes auto;
# Maximum number of open files per worker process.
# Should be > worker_connections.
worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;
events {
# If you need more connections than this, you start optimizing your OS.
# That's probably the point at which you hire people who are smarter than you as this is *a lot* of requests.
# Should be < worker_rlimit_nofile.
worker_connections 8000;
}
# Log errors and warnings to this file
# This is only used when you don't override it on a server{} level
error_log logs/error.log warn;
# The file storing the process ID of the main process
pid C:/nginx/pids/nginx.pid;
http {
# Hide nginx version information.
server_tokens off;
# Specify MIME types for files.
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
# Update charset_types to match updated mime.types.
# text/html is always included by charset module.
charset_types text/css text/plain text/vnd.wap.wml application/javascript application/json application/rss+xml application/xml;
# Include $http_x_forwarded_for within default format used in log files
log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
'$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
# Log access to this file
# This is only used when you don't override it on a server{} level
access_log logs/access.log main;
# How long to allow each connection to stay idle.
# Longer values are better for each individual client, particularly for SSL,
# but means that worker connections are tied up longer.
keepalive_timeout 20s;
# Speed up file transfers by using sendfile() to copy directly
# between descriptors rather than using read()/write().
# For performance reasons, on FreeBSD systems w/ ZFS
# this option should be disabled as ZFS's ARC caches
# frequently used files in RAM by default.
sendfile on;
# Don't send out partial frames; this increases throughput
# since TCP frames are filled up before being sent out.
tcp_nopush on;
# Enable gzip compression.
gzip on;
# Compression level (1-9).
# 5 is a perfect compromise between size and CPU usage, offering about
# 75% reduction for most ASCII files (almost identical to level 9).
gzip_comp_level 5;
# Don't compress anything that's already small and unlikely to shrink much
# if at all (the default is 20 bytes, which is bad as that usually leads to
# larger files after gzipping).
gzip_min_length 256;
# Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies,
# identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront).
gzip_proxied any;
# Tell proxies to cache both the gzipped and regular version of a resource
# whenever the client's Accept-Encoding capabilities header varies;
# Avoids the issue where a non-gzip capable client (which is extremely rare
# today) would display gibberish if their proxy gave them the gzipped version.
gzip_vary on;
# Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types.
gzip_types
application/atom+xml
application/javascript
application/json
application/ld+json
application/manifest+json
application/rss+xml
application/vnd.geo+json
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/x-font-ttf
application/x-web-app-manifest+json
application/xhtml+xml
application/xml
font/opentype
image/bmp
image/svg+xml
image/x-icon
text/cache-manifest
text/css
text/plain
text/vcard
text/vnd.rim.location.xloc
text/vtt
text/x-component
text/x-cross-domain-policy;
# text/html is always compressed by gzip module
# This should be turned on if you are going to have pre-compressed copies (.gz) of
# static files available. If not it should be left off as it will cause extra I/O
# for the check. It is best if you enable this in a location{} block for
# a specific directory, or on an individual server{} level.
# gzip_static on;
# Include files in the sites-enabled folder. server{} configuration files should be
# placed in the sites-available folder, and then the configuration should be enabled
# by creating a symlink to it in the sites-enabled folder.
# See doc/sites-enabled.md for more info.
include C:/nginx/conf/sites-enabled/*.conf;
}
Note that the end of this example we "including" all files ".conf" of "sites-enabled" folder.
If you do not use server-blocks you can simply create a file "default.conf" that will have your server settings.
Something like this:
default.conf (example)
server {
listen 80;
keepalive_timeout 300s;
# define path to this project
root "C:/nginx/html/your_path_here";
# Specify a charset
charset utf-8;
# define your server name
server_name localhost;
index index.php index.html;
autoindex off;
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000 ------------------------------
#
location ~ \.php$ {
# root for PHP FASTCGI MAPING
root html/your_path_here;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME C:/nginx/html/your_path_here$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# Prevent clients from accessing hidden files (starting with a dot) -------------------
# This is particularly important if you store .htpasswd files in the site hierarchy
# Access to `/.well-known/` is allowed.
# https://www.mnot.net/blog/2010/04/07/well-known
# https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785
location ~* /\.(?!well-known\/) {
deny all;
}
# Prevent clients from accessing to backup/config/source files ------------------------
location ~* (?:\.(?:bak|conf|dist|fla|in[ci]|log|psd|sh|sql|sw[op])|~)$ {
deny all;
}
# Expire rules for static content -----------------------------------------------------
# No default expire rule. This config mirrors that of apache as outlined in the
# html5-boilerplate .htaccess file. However, nginx applies rules by location,
# the apache rules are defined by type. A consequence of this difference is that
# if you use no file extension in the url and serve html, with apache you get an
# expire time of 0s, with nginx you'd get an expire header of one month in the
# future (if the default expire rule is 1 month). Therefore, do not use a
# default expire rule with nginx unless your site is completely static
# cache.appcache, your document html and data -----------------------------------------
location ~* \.(?:manifest|appcache|html?|xml|json)$ {
expires -1;
access_log logs/static.log;
}
# Feed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
location ~* \.(?:rss|atom)$ {
expires 1h;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
# Media: images, icons, video, audio, HTC ---------------------------------------------
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
expires 1M;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
# CSS and Javascript ------------------------------------------------------------------
location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
expires 1y;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
# WebFonts ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# If you are NOT using cross-domain-fonts.conf, uncomment the following directive
# location ~* \.(?:ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|woff2)$ {
# expires 1M;
# access_log off;
# add_header Cache-Control "public";
# }
}
For local development is a good choice to set cache negatito (-1) to always update to load the page.
Note that the configuration shown here is just an example and you may (or may not) use them.
Also note that by defining a root directory I put "your_path_here" replace as your real directory name.
This directory must be inside the folder "html" in "C:/nginx/html/".
To create a server-block to "site1" create a new configuration file in "sites-enabled" with any name and point to the corresponding root directory, this assuming your hosts file ("C:/Windows/System32/drives/etc/") has "site1" to "127.0.0.1" or subdomain is set to localhost (127.0.0.1 site1.localhost)

Answer 2

i Use
location ~ \.php$ {
root html;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME C:/nginx-0.7.60/html$fastcgi_script_name; #this is the one line for edition
include fastcgi_params;
}
C:\PHP5\php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9000