Upgrading to Nginx and getting WordPress to work
June 24th, 2009
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So, after doing an upgrade of my Apache installation all my web content stopped working. It continued to give 403 errors. After spending hours changing permissions and checking every little detail I gave up. So I installed Nginx instead. It’s a bit scary to start using a totally new web server software, but why not live dangerously? Anyway, it’s fast! Really fast. The only problem I had was to get all the redirects to work. And I also removed my gallery2 installation and moved the blog to /
Problems
It took longer than I had anticipated, mainly because I had to learn how to set up Nginx, but also because of the trouble of getting answers when searching the net. But here’s my working config (mostly saved for me if I forget 
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.jackenhack.com
jackenhack.com;
keepalive_timeout 5;
tcp_nodelay on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
location ~* ^.+\.(xml|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$
{
root /var/www/nginx-default;
}
location / {
root /var/www/nginx-default;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
#include /etc/nginx/wordpress_params.super_cache
#include /etc/nginx/enable_wordpress;
# rewrite old blog url
rewrite ^/blog/(.+)$ /$1 permanent;
# if the requested file exists, return it immediately
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
set $supercache_file '';
set $supercache_uri $request_uri;
if ($request_method = POST) {
set $supercache_uri '';
}
# Using pretty permalinks, so bypass the cache for any query string
if ($query_string) {
set $supercache_uri '';
}
if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_" ) {
set $supercache_uri '';
}
# if we haven't bypassed the cache, specify our supercache file
if ($supercache_uri ~ ^(.+)$) {
set $supercache_file /wp-content/cache/supercache/$http_host/$1index.html;
}
# only rewrite to the supercache file if it actually exists
if (-f $document_root$supercache_file) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $supercache_file break;
}
# all other requests go to Wordpress
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite . /index.php last;
}
}
# setup for jackeniax
location /jackeniax {
root /var/www/nginx-default/jackeniax;
index index.php index.html;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /jackeniax/index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}
if (!-d $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /jackeniax/index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/nginx-default$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
listen 80;
server_name www.jackenhack.com
jackenhack.com;
keepalive_timeout 5;
tcp_nodelay on;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
location ~* ^.+\.(xml|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js)$
{
root /var/www/nginx-default;
}
location / {
root /var/www/nginx-default;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
gzip on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
#include /etc/nginx/wordpress_params.super_cache
#include /etc/nginx/enable_wordpress;
# rewrite old blog url
rewrite ^/blog/(.+)$ /$1 permanent;
# if the requested file exists, return it immediately
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
set $supercache_file '';
set $supercache_uri $request_uri;
if ($request_method = POST) {
set $supercache_uri '';
}
# Using pretty permalinks, so bypass the cache for any query string
if ($query_string) {
set $supercache_uri '';
}
if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_" ) {
set $supercache_uri '';
}
# if we haven't bypassed the cache, specify our supercache file
if ($supercache_uri ~ ^(.+)$) {
set $supercache_file /wp-content/cache/supercache/$http_host/$1index.html;
}
# only rewrite to the supercache file if it actually exists
if (-f $document_root$supercache_file) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ $supercache_file break;
}
# all other requests go to Wordpress
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite . /index.php last;
}
}
# setup for jackeniax
location /jackeniax {
root /var/www/nginx-default/jackeniax;
index index.php index.html;
if (!-f $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /jackeniax/index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}
if (!-d $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.*)$ /jackeniax/index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/nginx-default$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
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