ExpressionEngine

ExpressionEngine
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This configuration isn't heavily tested, but it seems to work.

server { listen 80; server_name www.mydomain.com; root /var/www/EECore1.6.7;

access_log /var/log/nginx/www.mydomain.com-access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/www.mydomain.com-error.log info;

location / { index index.php; error_page 404 = @ee; }

location @ee { rewrite ^(.*) /index.php?$1 last; }

location ~ \.php$ { include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8888; fastcgi_index index.php5; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } }

Better Version
NOTE: The configuration above generates a lot of 404 errors on the logs. The one below is cleaner, and uses the recommended try_files method:

server { listen 80; server_name www.mydomain.com; root /var/www/EECore1.6.7;

access_log /var/log/nginx/www.mydomain.com-access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/www.mydomain.com-error.log info;

location / { index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ @ee; }

location @ee { rewrite ^(.*) /index.php?$1 last; }

location ~ \.php$ { include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8888; fastcgi_index index.php5; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } }

Version for index.php/your-path
The above code did not work for me, I had to use the following code:

server { listen 80; server_name example.com; root /PATH_TO_ROOT; index index.php;

location / { index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ @ee; }

location @ee { rewrite ^(.*) /index.php$1 last; }

location ~ \.php$ { include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; }

# This location is for our EE index.php gateway location /index.php { include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params; set $script    $uri; set $path_info $uri; # this will set the path_info when it exists as query string: /index.php?/something/here if ($args ~* "^(/.+)$") { set $path_info $1; }     fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; } }

The problem was that EE wanted to have the URL like this http://domain.com/index.php/your-path without the question mark. See http://expressionengine.com/archived_forums/viewthread/92987/ for a complete configuration.

Prevent duplicate content e.g. preventing http://example.com/index.php/your-path/
In your php configuration:

location /index.php { # Prevent duplicate content if ($request_uri ~ "^/index\.php/") { return 404; }

# the rest of your configuration ... }

Note this may require an explicit 404 page e.g. in your server block:

server { # ... error_page 404 /404.html; # ... }

EllisLab only very recently (2013/12) updated their docs with this, see: http://ellislab.com/blog/entry/fully-removing-index.php-from-urls