yhager's nginx Drupal config:

This is a complete nginx configuration for Drupal[1] sites. It supports boost, images server and multiple sites. Configuration of generic components is encapsulated, so you only need to define the required stuff, like domain name, web root directory etc.

This is a complete nginx configuration that is meant to serve as a basis for your setup.

[1] http://drupal.org

Features:

• Drupal with clean URL's (of course!)

• Multisite - to add a site, just create a short config file and reload

• Multiple environments - like staging, development and production are possible (see example config file)

• Images server for static files and imagecache manipulation (You would want to override theme_imagecache for this).

• Boost[2] supported - if boost files exist they are used (Boost 5.x files scheme)

• Gzipped static files are served if they exist (see tne javascript aggregator module[3]).

• Only allows to run the required PHP files (index.php, cron.php). The rest require a htpasswd. This provides a level of protection that is missing from most Drupal installations.

• Large fastcgi timeout - to allow long opeartions to run on PHP, until PHP times out.

• Use http://localhost/nginx_status to monitor server health, with tools like munin.

[2] http://drupal.org/project/boost [3] http://drupal.org/project/javascript_aggregator

Note:

These same settings and instructions would also work for mediawiki based wiki site. It can be extended to support more platforms (like wordpress).

Installation:

clone

git clone git://github.com/yhager/nginx_drupal

point nginx conf file to nginx.conf

vi /etc/init.d/nginx # your distro might have different location

restart nginx (distro dependant)

/etc/init.d/nginx restart

make sure you have a php-cgi server running on port 3000

php-cgi -b 127.0.0.1:3000

create a config file for your site

cp conf/vhosts.d/{example,yoursite}.conf vi conf/vhosts.d/yoursite.conf

edit conf/production, conf/staging and conf/dev to point to the directory of each env.

vi conf/{production,staging,dev}

• Running update.php and other protected PHP files

  The supplied htaccess uses the user 'user' and the password 'secret'. Be sure to change that using the 'htpasswd' command:

  htpasswd -c -b conf/htpasswd user secret

• Adding another site

  Copy conf/example.conf and edit it

  cp conf/vhosts.d/{example,anothersite}.conf vi conf/vhosts.d/anothersite.conf

  reload nginx

  /etc/init.d/nginx reload

Troubleshooting:

If you get an error about gzip_static line, either comment it out (and lose the automatic .gz files match) or recompile nginx with the '--with-http_gzip_static_module' configuration option.

If you get an error about stub_status module missing, comment those lines out, or recompile nginx with '--with-http_stub_status_module' configuration option.

Contribution:

Fork this project on GitHub and send pull requests.

Bugs, Features, Issues:

File a report on the issue tracker: http://github.com/yhager/nginx_drupal/issues/

Questions:

Send me an e-mail (see LICENSE for my address).