Yii

Nginx confuguration
server { server_name domain.tld;

root /usr/share/nginx/html; index index.html index.php;

#Yii Specific location configurations.

#SEF URLs for sampleapp. location /sampleapp { rewrite ^/sampleapp/(.*)$ /sampleapp/index.php?r=$1; }

location ~ /(protected|framework|nbproject) { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; }

location ~ /themes/\w+/views { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; }

location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ { try_files $uri =404; }

#End Yii Specific specific location configurations.

location ~ \.php$ { root           /usr/share/nginx/html; fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index  index.php; fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/share/nginx/html/$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; include        fastcgi_params; }

}

Yii confugration
After this, make sure that your Yii configuration file (main.php) for your app( sampleapp) contains the following information to enable SEF URLs in the app:

'urlManager'=>array(                       'urlFormat'=>'path',                        'showScriptName'=>false,                        'rules'=>array( '/'=>' /view', '//'=>' / ', '/'=>' / ', ),               )