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It is a "free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy"


== Configuration ==

*; server { }

 listen 80;
 server_name thedomain.com;

 access_log  logs/access.log;
 error_log     logs/error.log;

 root /home/swin/oaih/dev/public;
 index index.php index.html index.htm; 
 
*; location { }

* not logging if the site icon does not exists:
 location = /favicon.ico {
     log_not_found off;
     access_log off;
 }
* denying a directory:
 location = /directory_to_hide {
                deny all;
 }
* allow certain files only to local lan:
 location ~* \.(txt|logs)$ {
                allow 192.168.0.0/24;
                deny all;
 }
* block files by extension:
 location ~* \.(inc|engine|install|info|module|sh|sql|theme|tpl\.php|xtmpl|Entries|Repository|Root|jar|java|class)$ {
                deny all;
 }

=== FastCGI ===

 location ~ .php$ {
   fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
   fastcgi_index index.php;
   fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
   include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
 }
 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;
  fastcgi_index index.php; 
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$script;
  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $script;
  fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
 }
=== Rewrite rules ===

* rewriting every non existent file to index.php
<pre>
location / {
  if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last;
  }
}
</pre>

= References =
* http://emspace.com.au/article/nginx-rewrite-rules-pathinfo-and-scriptname
* http://wiki.nginx.org/Drupal
* http://klau.si/nginx-configuration-drupal