Nginx Server Config

Here is an example config for a MODX installation on an nginx server (php-fpm is required for nginx servers). This example enables MODX FURLs as well.

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name example.com www.example.com;
        root /home/sites/example.com;
        index index.php;
        client_max_body_size 30M;
        location / {
                root /home/sites/example.com;
                if (!-e $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
                }
        }
        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_ignore_client_abort on;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME $http_host;
        }

        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny  all;
        }
}

FastCGI connectivity between nginx and PHP as expressed on the line fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; may need to be set to something like fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

This is codependent on how the www.conf (usually located at /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d ) file is configured. How is the "listen" directive set up in that file: TCP or unix socket (i.e. /var/run/php5-fpm.sock ) ?

The nginx config file needs to specify the same connection in both files! [NB: theoretically unix sockets will be faster, but in such case both resources need to be on the same host. TCP is useful in a distributed environment. ]

An alternative server configuration was suggested in this forum topic.

Thanks for posting this, complete with FURL support :)

Question: With root /home/sites/example.com; defined at the server level, is it necessary to include again in the first location block? My understanding is that nginx configs are inherited from the top down, and therefore it could be removed in this case...

In some cases (my guts say older versions of nginx) you might need to comment out the fastcgi_split_path_info directive.