NGINX configuration

[chrisburton]

@traq Perhaps you know what I’m doing wrong here. Let me give you the steps I took.

• Installed Nginx on my VPS (Centos 6)
• Quit Apache to avoid conflict of Nginx running on port 80
• Started up Nginx

I checked my website (domain.com) and I received a 404 error.

• Edited nginx.conf (location portion) to index index.html index.htm index.php; to allow php scripts to be executed
• Edited default.conf (server portion) to reflect the location of my public html folder

Checked website again and still get a 404 error but this time my index.php file was trying to download. To avoid vulnerabilities (database stuff) from being seen, I took it down.

Could you help me to configure Nginx for Centos 6? The following are my config files:

nginx.conf
default.conf

[Alen]

You need to pass on the request to the socket. I’m on mobile now, but something like

    location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            # NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini

            # With php5-cgi alone:
            # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
            # With php5-fpm:
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }

[nixnerd]

See @chrisburton? That block you had commented out is what is needed. Pretty sure php-fpm is a package you’ll have to install separately though. It’s been a minute since I configured mine. Digital Ocean has great tuts and they should be no different on any other VPS provider for the most part.

[chrisburton]

Thanks, Alen!

@joe_temp Yeah, I tried installing php-fpm but keep getting conflicts. I’ll try to figure it out.

[nixnerd]

Hmmm. Feel free to post the conflicts you’re getting if you get stuck. That way, we can help out as we can.

Sorry this is such a pain. I found the Nginx setup to be much easier than Apache.

[chrisburton]

I really screwed things up with the command line so I have to start over.

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Are you following any particular guide? This one looks pretty nice.

[chrisburton]

@traq I’m going with Ubuntu this time around. They have better and more tutorials. I really want to use HHVM but haven’t found a suitable tutorial to follow for Centos 6.

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the guide I linked to has an Ubuntu version. basically the same, but with apt-get instead of yum.

[Alen]

I learned so much about provisioning by visiting Vaprobash on GitHub and looking at various install scripts. Visit servers for hackers as well. Lots of good info.

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