Running Nginx with Concrete5
I’ve been sitting here all day bashing my head against one simple problem – getting Concrete5 working behind Nginx.
Concrete5 is a beautiful, simple php-based CMS – a loud answer to the complexity of Joomla and Drupal, but of course missing some of the power too. It’s perfect for web sites that aren’t managed by total geeks.
Nginx is the world’s fastest and most efficient web server. Hands down, no competition, no argument.
The problem I had integrating the two stems from nginx+php-fastcgi not correctly passing through the PATH_INFO variable so you can have URLs like “http://example.com/index.php/path/to/file”.
The solution was to slightly alter the usual php-fastcgi parameter processing. Below is my complete config for my concrete5 site. This worked on Debian Lenny with nginx 0.7.59.
server { listen 80; server_name www.example.com; autoindex on; location / { root /var/www/example.com/concrete5/; index index.php; if (!-f $request_filename){ set $rule_0 1$rule_0; } if (!-d $request_filename){ set $rule_0 2$rule_0; } if ($rule_0 = "21"){ rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last; } } location ~ \.php($|/) { set $script $uri; set $path_info ""; if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") { set $script $1; set $path_info $2; } fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/example.com/concrete5$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param URI $uri; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf; } }
Thanks for this post really saved me a lot of time.
Thanks for the tip. Very helpful. I’ll try it out.
As for Nginx not having competitors, from my experience there are both commercial (Zeus) and open source (Cherokee) web servers that are even faster.
I haven’t been able to run Cherokee with Concrete5, though. Not yet.
It works for me with
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/example.com/concrete5$script;