I wanted to learn YII.
But For 2 days i’m trying to setup nginx (+ubuntu +php-fpm) for yii. Unsuccessfully of course - every configs for nginx, even these founded on yiiframework.com FAILS (booom!). Throwing errors or just not working properly with demo app.
Can somebody help me, paste WORKING config for nginx or should i visit fuelphp website?
What exactly fails? Where are your errors? Do simple php scripts work? Is there a routing problem?
This is my nginx.conf:
user _www;
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
client_max_body_size 100M;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
autoindex on;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
root /usr/local/var/www;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_read_timeout 3600;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
include vhosts/*.conf;
}
}
And this is a sample vhost.conf in vhosts/*.conf:
location /www/project {
try_files $uri $uri/ /www/project/index.php?$args;
}
[size="2"]Everytime I create a new yii/wordpress project with nice urls, all i have to do is copy this 3 lines to a new file and reload nginx. Works with ubuntu and mac os x and php-fpm 5.3 - 5.5[/size]
Well, it’s nginx making you sad, not Yii.
I’m using the following (with latest stable nginx built from sources):
nginx.conf
worker_processes 1;
error_log logs/error.log warn;
pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
gzip on;
charset utf-8;
index index.php index.htm index.html;
include vhosts/*.conf;
}
vhosts/yii2.conf (you can create as many .conf files as you want there, it will read all these)
server {
listen 80;
server_name yii2-basic.local;
root /dev/yii2-basic-dev/web/;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; # Redirect everything that isn't real file to index.php including arguments.
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
location ~ /\.(ht|svn) {
deny all;
}
}
fastcgi.conf
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
If nginx is making you sad, try the Hiawatha web server. Success guaranteed! 
P.S.
This forum doesn’t allow me to include a link in my post. Just google for Hiawatha web server. You’ll find it.