migrating Topincs to nginx
Piotr Kopszak
kopszak at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 13:13:51 UTC 2013
Dear list,
This is going to be a long post, but I hope you will bear with me. I
am trying to find a way to run Topincs, an agile web application
framework based on Topic Maps paradigm, on nginx. Topincs is a
typical LAMP app, so I hoped I would be able to figure it out on my
own, but unfortunately not. Even if you find this post too long and
boring to read, I would be grateful for pointing me to resources
concerning migration from apache2 to nginx and descriptions of
successful cases.
First a description of the situation by Topincs' author:
"My main objective in the Apache and Topincs integration was that it
is possible to occupy any URL space below a domain without the need
for a general 'root', e.g. everything under /topincs. Plus it should
be possible to run different stores under different Topincs versions,
just in case.
So Apache does two things for Topincs:
1. The rewrite rules basically cut off the store path prefix (e.g.
/trial/movies) and pass the result on to
TOPINCS_HOME/docroot/.topincs.
2. Based on the path prefix it maps the URL to a store (database).
This is done by setting an Apache environment variable in the
configuration. This variable is read in .topincs only.
So once you manage to provide .topincs with the above, you are set." (
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/topincs/message/673 )
So let's start with a working Apache configuration. I'm running Debian
Wheezy, uname -a gives:
Linux box 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default contains:
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<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster at localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/ >
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
Include "/home/apollo/topincs/conf/httpd.conf"
</VirtualHost>
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/home/apollo/topincs/conf/httpd.conf :
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RewriteEngine on
<Directory "/home/apollo/topincs/docroot">
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
DirectoryIndex index.php
AddType 'text/html; charset=UTF-8' .html
DefaultType application/x-httpd-php
php_value include_path
"/home/apollo/topincs/php:/home/apollo/topincs/vendor/php"
php_value default_charset "UTF-8"
php_value magic_quotes_gpc "0"
php_value max_execution_time "7200"
php_value memory_limit "500M"
php_value short_open_tag "0"
</Directory>
<Directory ~ "/home/apollo/topincs/docroot/[0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9](beta\([0-9]+\))?">
FileETag none
Header set Expires "Fri, 31 Dec 2020 23:59:59 GMT"
Header set Cache-control "public"
</Directory>
Include "/home/apollo/topincs/conf/*.httpd.conf"
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/home/apollo/topincs/conf/ contains mercury.httpd.conf:
--------------------------------------------------------------------
<LocationMatch ^/mercury/.*>
SetEnv TOPINCS_STORE mercury
</LocationMatch>
RewriteRule ^/mercury/([3-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9].*/(.core-topics|css|images|js|vendor|fonts).*)$
/mercury/$1 [PT,E=TOPINCS_STORE:mercury]
RewriteRule ^/mercury((\.|/).*)$ /mercury/.topincs?request=$1
[PT,L,QSA,E=TOPINCS_STORE:mercury]
Alias /mercury "/home/apollo/topincs/docroot"
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The (useless) nginx setup I came up with so far is following:
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
---------------------------------------------------------------------
user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
}
http {
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log debug;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
include fastcgi_params;
}
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/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/topincs :
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
server {
listen 80;
root /home/apollo/topincs/docroot;
index index.php;
location / {
fastcgi_pass localhost:9000;
fastcgi_index "/index.php";
allow all;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include fastcgi_params;
if (-f $request_filename) {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
location ~ mercury {
fastcgi_param TOPINCS_STORE mercury;
}
location ~ /\.[0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9](beta\([0-9]+\))? {
add_header Expires "Fri, 31 Dec 2020 23:59:59 GMT";
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
location /mercury {
rewrite
^/mercury/([3-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9].*/(.core-topics|css|images|js|vendor|fonts).*)$
/mercury/$1;
rewrite ^/mercury((\.|/).*)$ /mercury/.topincs?request=$1;
}
}
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/etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
--------------------------------------------------------------------
[PHP]
short_open_tag = Off
asp_tags = Off
precision = 14
output_buffering = 4096
zlib.output_compression = Off
implicit_flush = Off
unserialize_callback_func =
serialize_precision = 17
disable_functions =
pcntl_alarm,pcntl_fork,pcntl_waitpid,pcntl_wait,pcntl_wifexited,pcntl_wifstopped,pcntl_wifsignaled,pcntl_wexitstatus,pcntl_wtermsig,pcntl_wstopsig,pcntl_signal,pcntl_signal_dispatch,pcntl_get_last_error,pcntl_strerror,pcntl_sigprocmask,pcntl_sigwaitinfo,pcntl_sigtimedwait,pcntl_exec,pcntl_getpriority,pcntl_setpriority,
disable_classes =
zend.enable_gc = On
expose_php = On
max_execution_time = 30
max_input_time = 60
memory_limit = 128M
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
log_errors = On
log_errors_max_len = 1024
ignore_repeated_errors = Off
ignore_repeated_source = Off
report_memleaks = On
track_errors = Off
html_errors = On
error_log = /var/log/php_errors.log
variables_order = "GPCS"
request_order = "GP"
register_argc_argv = Off
auto_globals_jit = On
post_max_size = 8M
auto_prepend_file =
auto_append_file =
default_mimetype = "text/html"
doc_root =
user_dir =
enable_dl = Off
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 2M
max_file_uploads = 20
allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = Off
default_socket_timeout = 60
request_terminate_timeout = 30s
[CLI Server]
cli_server.color = On
[Pdo_mysql]
pdo_mysql.cache_size = 2000
pdo_mysql.default_socket=
[mail function]
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
mail.add_x_header = On
[SQL]
sql.safe_mode = Off
[ODBC]
odbc.allow_persistent = On
odbc.check_persistent = On
odbc.max_persistent = -1
odbc.max_links = -1
odbc.defaultlrl = 4096
odbc.defaultbinmode = 1
[Interbase]
ibase.allow_persistent = 1
ibase.max_persistent = -1
ibase.max_links = -1
ibase.timestampformat = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
ibase.dateformat = "%Y-%m-%d"
ibase.timeformat = "%H:%M:%S"
[MySQL]
mysql.allow_local_infile = On
mysql.allow_persistent = On
mysql.cache_size = 2000
mysql.max_persistent = -1
mysql.max_links = -1
mysql.default_port =
mysql.default_socket =
mysql.default_host =
mysql.default_user =
mysql.default_password =
mysql.connect_timeout = 60
mysql.trace_mode = Off
[MySQLi]
mysqli.max_persistent = -1
mysqli.allow_persistent = On
mysqli.max_links = -1
mysqli.cache_size = 2000
mysqli.default_port = 3306
mysqli.default_socket =
mysqli.default_host =
mysqli.default_user =
mysqli.default_pw =
mysqli.reconnect = Off
[mysqlnd]
mysqlnd.collect_statistics = On
mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics = Off
[bcmath]
bcmath.scale = 0
[Session]
session.save_handler = files
session.use_cookies = 1
session.use_only_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain =
session.cookie_httponly =
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 0
session.gc_divisor = 1000
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.bug_compat_42 = Off
session.bug_compat_warn = Off
session.referer_check =
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 0
session.hash_function = 0
session.hash_bits_per_character = 5
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"
[MSSQL]
mssql.allow_persistent = On
mssql.max_persistent = -1
mssql.max_links = -1
mssql.min_error_severity = 10
mssql.min_message_severity = 10
mssql.compatability_mode = Off
mssql.secure_connection = Off
[Tidy]
tidy.clean_output = Off
[soap]
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=1
soap.wsdl_cache_dir="/tmp"
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl=86400
soap.wsdl_cache_limit = 5
[ldap]
ldap.max_links = -1
[dba]
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;
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/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf
--------------------------------------------
[www]
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = 127.0.0.1:9000
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 5
pm.start_servers = 2
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 3
slowlog = /var/log/php5-fpm.slow.log
request_terminate_timeout = 30s
chdir = /
php_value[include_path] =
"/home/apollo/topincs/php:/home/apollo/topincs/vendor/php"
php_value[default_charset] = "UTF-8"
php_value[magic_quotes_gpc] = "0"
php_value[php_value max_execution_time] = "7200"
php_value[php_value memory_limit] = "500M"
php_value[php_value short_open_tag] = "0"
env[TOPINCS_STORE] = "mercury";
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That's all I can think of. If you have any ideas how to make this work
it would be GREATLY appreciated, not only by my but also by other
Topincs users, who will enjoy using nginx instead of apache.
Many thanks in advance
Piotr
P.S.
Topincs installation instructions are here:
http://www.cerny-online.com/topincs/manual/installing
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