Intraspirit

Before I started working on this website, I had switched my server over to Nginx. I originally installed it as an experiment and something new to toy with, but it quickly grew on me. Configuration was a snap, something that was never the case with Apache, and it had Passenger. Never having much use for the extensive modules that are available for Apache, I decided to keep it.

I quickly ran into a problem, however, when I started the development of the new Intraspirit. I liked what Symphony had to offer, but the rewrite rules seeded at installation were in an .htaccess file for Apache. Ouch. I spent a few nights reading the Nginx Wiki to learn some Nginx rewrite-foo.

Here's what I ended up with:

server {
  listen 80; 
  server_name intraspirit.net;
  root /path/to/public/;
  index index.php;

  access_log /path/to/access.log;
  error_log /path/to/error.log;

  location / { 
    if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.*[^/])$ $1/ permanent; }
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
      rewrite ^/symphony/(.*)$ /symphony/index.php?page=$1 last;
      rewrite ^/(.*)/(?:?(.*))?$ /index.php?page=$1$2 last;
    }   
  }   

  location ~ .php$ {
    try_files $uri @symphony;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/public/$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
    include        /opt/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
  }   

  location @symphony {
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/public/index.php;
    fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     page=$request_uri;
    include        /opt/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
  }   
} 

Gist #139873

I have purposely omitted the JIT image manipulation rules from my configuration, because I don't have much need for that extension. If anyone has adjustments that they would make to this configuration, please let me know.