Topic: Nginx, GetSimple CMS and preety urls, too.

Did anybody install this on nginx?

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Re: Nginx, GetSimple CMS and preety urls, too.

I haven’t tried installing it on nginx, and frankly I find it a bit hard to find a lot of information on that server system.

GetSimple needs PHP5 with the SimpleXML lib to run, if you can get that to run on nginx I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t run.

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3 Reply by misha.reyzlin (edited by misha.reyzlin 2010-03-25 17:08:13)

Re: Nginx, GetSimple CMS and preety urls, too.

I am working on deploying it right now, I've got wordpress working, previously, but for now I can't get it to work, digging into it :)

I hope I will have enough strengths to write short tutorial on the subject here, once I am done.

Re: Nginx, GetSimple CMS and preety urls, too.

Okay, here is the conf I've used (it's based on that for wordpress, so in case you want to deploy simplecms on nginx, google for deploying worpdress, try it, see that it works (or just find the php part, since we don't need mysql for simplecms).

vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/test.com 

server {
    listen   80;
    #TODO: make www to redirect!
    server_name test.com;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/test.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/test.com.error.log;

    location / {
        root   /var/www/test.com;
        index  index.html index.htm index.php;

        # this serves static files that exist without running other rewrite tests
        if (-f $request_filename) {
            expires 30d;
            break;
        }

        # this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?id=$1 last;
        }
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/test.com$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

So, everything I needed to change (everything that is different from wordpress) is that rewrite rule:
instead of 

rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;


we do 

rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?id=$1 last;

(substituted q with id)

Help this will help to somebody :)

PS I am deploying PHP with php-fpm, google "nginx php-fpm"

Re: Nginx, GetSimple CMS and preety urls, too.

Thanks. You saved me a lot of time.

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Re: Nginx, GetSimple CMS and preety urls, too.

[/root.] wrote:

Thanks. You saved me a lot of time.

don't do the rewrite, that's not efficient. And use try_files. I gave a few examples of nginx config in a different thread. When i have time i'll post a better config for newer nginx versions (1+)