My two favourite CMSes and my two favourite web servers. Here are four config files for the same website. Let's assume we have a user devin with two directories in his public_html folder:
/home/devin/public_html/drupal /home/devin/public_html/wordpress
And then has already created the following logs folders (nginx and Apache have a habit of crashing when you try to specify a non-existent logging directory):
/home/devin/logs/apache/drupal /home/devin/logs/apache/wordpress /home/devin/logs/nginx/drupal /home/devin/logs/nginx/wordpress
And that you've got the following four domains:
WA.devinhoward.ca DA.devinhoward.ca WN.devinhoward.ca DN.devinhoward.ca
Then here are the configuration files that should work to host Drupal or Wordpress on Nginx or Apache:
Wordpress on Apache:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName WA.devinhoward.ca
DocumentRoot /home/devin/public_html/wordpress
ErrorLog /home/devin/logs/apache/wordpress/error.log
CustomLog /home/devin/logs/apache/wordpress/access.log combined env=!justtesting
<Directory /home/devin/public_html/wordpress>
suPHP_Engine on
AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp .php .php3 .php4 .php5
suPHP_AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp
AllowOverride All
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Limit>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Drupal on Apache:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName DA.devinhoward.ca
DocumentRoot /home/devin/public_html/drupal
ErrorLog /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/error.log
CustomLog /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/access.log combined env=!justtesting
<Directory /home/devin/public_html/drupal>
suPHP_Engine on
AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp .php .php3 .php4 .php5
suPHP_AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp
AllowOverride All
<Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Limit>
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Wordpress on Nginx:
server {
listen 80;
## Your website name goes here.
server_name WN.devinhoward.ca;
## Your only path reference.
root /home/devin/public_html/wordpress;
access_log /home/devin/logs/nginx/wordpress/access.log;
error_log /home/devin/logs/nginx/wordpress/error.log error;
## This should be in your http block and if it is, it's not needed here.
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
#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;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
Drupal on Nginx:
server {
server_name DN.devinhoward.ca;
root /home/devin/public_html/drupal;
access_log /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/access.log;
error_log /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/error.log error;
# Enable compression, this will help by serving Gzip versions of files.
gzip_static on;
location = /favicon.ico {
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location = /robots.txt {
allow all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
# Very rarely should these ever be accessed outside of your lan
location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
deny all;
}
location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
return 403;
}
# No no for private
location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ {
return 403;
}
# Block access to "hidden" files and directories whose names begin with a
# period. This includes directories used by version control systems such
# as Subversion or Git to store control files.
location ~ (^|/)\. {
return 403;
}
location / {
# This is cool because no php is touched for static content
try_files $uri @rewrite;
}
location @rewrite {
# You have 2 options here
# For D7 and above:
# Clean URLs are handled in drupal_environment_initialize().
rewrite ^ /index.php;
# For Drupal 6 and bwlow:
# Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
# Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
#rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
# Fighting with Styles? This little gem is amazing.
# This is for D6
#location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/imagecache/ {
# This is for D7 and D8
location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/styles/ {
try_files $uri @rewrite;
}
location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
Note: the nginx stuff was plagiarized and adapted, here are my sources:
- https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-ng…
- http://wiki.nginx.org/Drupal