nginx-0.7.52

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 04:34:49PM -0700, Chris Cortese wrote:

> Just to clarify:
> 
> I'm really wanting to try Igor's latest 0.7.52 native Windows build.  
> Ignore the part about "cygwin" being part of the pathname.
> But there is history for why "cygwin" is in my path at all:
> 
> 1.  I first was trying the cygwin build from the link out there on the 
> net.  
> http://www.softwareprojects.com/resources/programming/t-how-to-install-nginx-php-php-fpm-and-mysql-under-1616.html
> Using that link and a couple other things I had to find / figure out, I 
> was able to get nginx and php-fpm working on Windows, but I could not 
> get the crypt() function to understand / do md5.  This meant I couldn't 
> log in to my local website and so this was kind of useless.
> 
> 2.  I next tried 0.7.50 from kevinworthington.com.  I think it could 
> have worked but it insisted on looking for nginx.conf down under the 
> /cygwin place where I had built nginx from source (see #1, above).  I 
> could not figure out how to tell it just to use nginx.conf from 
> c:\nginx\conf\nginx.conf.  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling cygwin 
> and nginx (but cygwin is not so easy to uninstall).  That was apparently 
> all that I needed to get that working! (Well, I never got to the point 
> of testing crypt() on that attempt).
> 
> 3.  Then Igor releases 0.7.52 native Windows build which I hoped would 
> avoid both the above problems, and it probably still will, but I am 
> unclear as to what kind of paths are expected.  Somewhere I read that 
> for the SCRIPT_FILENAME, I should include the drive letter, but for the 
> "root" directive, I should not...???  And I did not know if double 
> quotes should be used, etc.... I can find no documentation on proper 
> paths for the new 0.7.52 native Windows build nginx.conf.
> 
> I'll keep trying.  Hope that history explains how I got there and why 
> "cygwin" still is in my nginx.conf.  I'm no longer trying to use the 
> cygwin build.   I just happen to have my web codebase still in that 
> location (I've also tried other locations, like c:\nginx\html\www\...etc)

The path in SCRIPT_FILENAME is FastCGI server property. You may run nginx
on Unix host and FastCGI on Windows. And in this case SCRIPT_FILENAME
should have Windows-style path.

If PHP is Cygwin application, then you should use Cygwin-compatible path.
If PHP is native Win32 application, then you should use x:\.. style path.

> Thanks!
> Chris
> 
> 
> Roger Pack wrote:
> >>The message "No input file specified" meanse that PHP can not find file
> >>on passed path, say:
> >>"c:/cygwin/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public/index.php"
> >>I do not know how Cygwin translated pathnames, but it may be just
> >>"/home/Chris/www/live/jobsite/trunk/html/public/index.php"
> >>therefore you may try
> >>
> >>-    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME   c:/cygwin/home/Chris....
> >>+    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME   /home/Chris....
> >>    
> >
> >if it's cygwin it might be something like /cygdrive/c/...
> >  
> 

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Igor Sysoev
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