Nginnx config for Yii 2 Advanced App Template

Question

I would like to configure the Nginx web-server in such a way that:

• Requests to the /index.php URI should be handled by public_html/frontend/web

Answer 1

Here's my working config, based on accepted answer. My project backend directory is renamed to admin

# Example config for nginx
# frontend is available on yii-application.local/
# backend (admin) is available on yii-application.local/admin
# make sure that @app/frontend/config/main.php and @app/admin/config/main.php components sections are configured properly
# e.g. @app/frontend/config/main.php
#   'homeUrl' => '',
#   ...
#   'components' => [
#         'request' => [
#              'baseUrl' => '',
#          ],
#          'urlManager' => [
#              'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
#              'showScriptName' => false,
#          ],
#   ]
#
# e.g. @app/admin/config/main.php
#   'homeUrl' => '/admin',
#   ...
#   'components => [
#        'request' => [
#            'baseUrl' => '/admin',
#        ],
#        'urlManager' => [
#            'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
#            'showScriptName' => false,
#        ],
#   ]
server {
    set $project_root /home/yii/apps/yii-advanced;
    set $fcgi_server unix:/opt/php/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

    charset utf-8;
    client_max_body_size 128M;

    listen 80;
    server_name yii-application.local;

    root $project_root/frontend/web;    
    index index.php;

    access_log  /home/yii/apps/yii-advanced/logs/access-backend.log;
    error_log   /home/yii/apps/yii-advanced/logs/error-backend.log;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location /admin {
        index /web/index.php;
        alias $project_root/admin/web;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /web/index.php?$args;

        location ~ ^/admin/.*\.php$ {
            rewrite ^/admin/(.*)$ /web/$1;
            fastcgi_pass $fcgi_server;
            include fastcgi.conf;
        }
    }

    location ~ ^/web/.*\.php$ {
        internal;
        root $project_root/admin;
        fastcgi_pass $fcgi_server;
        include fastcgi.conf;
    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass $fcgi_server;
        include fastcgi.conf;
    }

    location ~* \.(htaccess|htpasswd|svn|git) {
        deny all;
    }
}