how do i setup nginx websites as in Xampp - php

Question

I am trying to migrate from XAMPP to Nginx webserver. I used to have multiple websites running with Xampp with each web folder residing under xampp/htdocs folder. so for example, I will access sites(yii web sites) as [code]http://myserver/site1[code] and [code]http://myserver/site2[code] and they would be accessed from the site1 and site2 folders under htdocs. But I am having trouble setting this up in nginx. I have setup the default configuration with the root folder as /etc/share/nginx/www (and site1 and site2 folders are under www) and when i access the same way with nginx, the webpage gives an error saying "No Input file specified". I understand that multiple sites are setup in nginx with different domain names and different root folders, but is it possible to have the xampp like configuration? Because i am testing this on my local network and i do not want to setup multiple domain names for this.

Answer 1

Config for latest nginx versions is pretty simple. First you should edit nginx/conf/nginx.conf and make sure you have something like include vhosts/*.conf; inside http { section. That will make nginx look for extra configs under vhosts.
Also it's a good idea to declare the following in http { as well not to repeat it for each individual config:
gzip on;
charset utf-8;
index index.php index.htm index.html;
Then in nginx/conf/vhosts/mydomain.com.conf:
server {
listen 80;
server_name mydomain.com;
root /var/www/mydomain.com/www;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; # Redirect everything that isn't real file to index.php including arguments.
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi.conf; # that's if you have one of latest versions of nginx. If not, see below
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # or pass through socket if it's how you've configured php-fpm
}
location ~ /\.(ht|svn) {
deny all;
}
}
In case you don't have fastcgi.conf here it is:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
Now the only thing left is to add mydomain.com to your hosts file so it's recognized locally.

Answer 2

That's simple.
Drop your databases, compress them, import them again OR use mysql -u root -p BASENAME < /the/path/BASEDROP.sql
Then simply move your default dir like /var/www/html and set permissions to 0777 or less by using chmod 0777 -R /the/path and also use chown www-data:www-data -R /the/path AND THEN reboot your system.

Answer 3

Well, after struggling through I finally found the ideal configuration. I understand this is not a recommended setup, but this is the give problem for me (nginx with multiple sites as subdirectories) and had to find a solution for it.
location /Site1/ {
root /usr/share/nginx/www/Site1;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# the images need a seperate entry as we dont want to concatenate that with index.php
location ~ /Site1/.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
root /usr/share/nginx/www/Site1;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server
location ~ /Site1/.+\.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
allow 127.0.0.1;
# # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
# # With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
}
location /Site3/ {
root /usr/share/nginx/www/Site3;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server
location ~ /Site3/.+\.php$ {
allow 127.0.0.1;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
#we are directly using the $request_filename as its a single php script
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
}
More details on this blog, http://programmersjunk.blogspot.com/2013/11/nginx-multiple-sites-in-subdirectories.html