Nginx
From Joomla! Documentation
Nginx is light-weight web-server which run on more than 6% over internet web-servers[1].
Here are some instructions on how-to install it on Gentoo Linux machine and install joomla within this server. For other distros, see sources section
PHP installation[edit]
PHP will run as fastcgi service (fpm), so Nginx server will run php separately (as different process):
# echo "dev-lang/php gd gd2 curl simplexml tokenizer dom tidy sqlite xml fpm cgi" >> /etc/portage/package.use # emerge php
The default of php-fpm is good for most servers. For special configuration visit php site.
Install nginx[edit]
In Linux you'll need to use emerge command. In other distros it would be apt-get, rpm, etc (depend on the distro).
# emerge nginx
Configure Nginx[edit]
The configuration of the virtual host on Gentoo lives in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf. Here is example from the author server:
server { listen 80; server_name YOUR_DOMAIN; server_name_in_redirect off; access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log main; error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log info; root PATH_ON_SERVER; # this is the sef of Joomla location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$request_uri; } index index.php index.html index.htm default.html default.htm; # unauthorize running scripts inside writable directories location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ { return 403; error_page 403 /403_error.html; } location ~ .*.php$ { include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } # caching of files location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ { expires 1y; } location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ { expires 1y; } location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ { expires 14d; } }
Pay attention for few things:
- The sef of Joomla is inside.
- The argument fastcgi_pass set to 127.0.0.1:9000 as the fpm configured to listen on this port. That's mean you can run the php on separate servers. You can find this configuration in /etc/php/fpm-php5.3/php-fpm.conf/
- Don't forget to replace YOUR_DOMAIN & PATH_ON_SERVER depend on your domain and the path of Joomla on your server.
GZip support[edit]
If you need GZip compression support add the next code into the http section (inside /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
gzip on; gzip_http_version 1.1; gzip_comp_level 6; gzip_min_length 1100; gzip_buffers 4 8k; gzip_types text/plain application/xhtml+xml text/css application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/javascript application/x-javascr$ gzip_proxied any; gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";