Are these rules ok?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:32:46PM +0800, Shri @ GeoExpat.Com wrote:

> I'm trying to setup my first site, which uses wordpress, photopost classifieds, vbulletin and gossamer threads (CGI Perl based) software - along with some fairly simple posts.
> 
> The site is being migrated from apache (frontend) + lightttpd (static) to a nginx + fastcgi. I'm focused on migrating the PHP part first, as we can always proxy the CGI requests to Apache.
> 
> My nginx.conf looks like this (based on various bits and pieces found on google and mailing lists).
> 
> My questions are
> 
> 1) Am I missing something obvious?
> 2) Why cant I get the Wordpress 404 to work correctly?
> 3) We need to exclude a couple of countries due to various illegal spam issues. Is this http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGeoModule the best way to do it?
> 
> Thanks in advance from someone who is VERY new to Nginx. 

How do you separate wordpress, photopost classifieds, vbulletin, and gossamer
on the site ? I see vbulletin's /forums, and some /scripts/
and /resources/Detailed/ only.

BTW, note that nginx does not support CGI.

If you use 0.6.34, then it's better to apply patch
http://sysoev.ru/nginx/patch.try_files.0.6.34
and use new "try_files" directive.
In 0.7.30 already has this functionality.

Then you can handle Wordpress using following configuration:

    location / {
        try_files      $uri  @wordpress;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files      $uri  @wordpress;

        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to$fastcgi_script_name;
        ... other fastcgi_param
    }

    location @wordpress {
        fastcgi_pass   ...;

        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/index.php;
        ... other fastcgi_param
    }

This is replacement of these Apache rules:

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
#RewriteRule . /index.php [L]


> ---------------------
>     server {
> 
>         listen  80;
>         server_name domain.com www.domain.com;
> 
>         root /site/domain/dec08;
> 
> #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> #RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
> 
>         error_page 404 =404 /index.php;
> 
>         index index.php index.html index.htm;
> 
>         location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
>                 access_log      off;
>                 expires         30d;
>                 break;
>         }
> 
>         ### Proxy CGI to Apache for now
>         location ^~ /scripts/ {
>               proxy_pass http://cgiserver;
>               proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>               proxy_set_header Host $host;
>               proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>         }
> 
>         location ^~ /resources/Detailed/ {
>               proxy_pass http://cgiserver;
>               proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
>               proxy_set_header Host $host;
>               proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
>         }
> 
> #### Deal with VBSEO Rules
> #RewriteRule ^((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 [L]
> #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(admincp/|modcp/|cron)
> #RewriteRule ^((archive/)?(.*\.php(/.*)?)?)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
> #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> #RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^(admincp|modcp|clientscript|cpstyles|images)/
> #RewriteRule ^(.+)$ vbseo.php [L,QSA]
> 
>         location /forum/ {
> 
>         rewrite ^/forum/getnew.html$ /forum/search.php?do=getnew last;
>         rewrite ^/forum/getnew([0-9]+).html$ /forum/search.php?do=getnew&f=$1 last;
>         rewrite ^/forum/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forum/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 last;
>         rewrite ^/forum/unanswered.html$ /forum/search.php?do=process&replyless=1&replylimit=0&dontcache=1 last;
>         rewrite ^/forum/unanswered([0-9]+).html$ /forum/search.php?do=process&replyless=1&replylimit=0&dontcache=1&forumchoice=$1&childforums=1 last;
> 
>         if ($request_filename ~ "\.php$" ) {
>                 rewrite ^/forum/(.*)$ /forum/vbseo.php last;
>         }
> 
>         if (!-e $request_filename) {
>                 rewrite ^/forum/(.*)$ /forum/vbseo.php last;
>         }
>         }
> 
>         location ~ \.php {
> 
>                 set $script $uri;
>                 set $path_info "";
> 
> #need this bit to work for classifieds friendly urls which need path_info to be set 
> 
>                 if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") {
>                         set $script $1;
>                         set $path_info $2;
>                 }
> 
>             fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/tmp/lighttpd/fastcgi-php.sock;
>             fastcgi_index  index.php;
>             fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /site/expat/oct08$script;
>             fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO    $path_info;
>             include        fastcgi_params;
>         }
> 
>         location ~ /\.ht {
>             deny  all;
>         }
>     }
> 
> }

-- 
Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/