Zend Framework on nginx

Question

The Zend Framework based site I have been working on is now being migrated to its production server. This server turns out to be nginx (surprise!). Naturally the site does not w

Answer 1

If you use a subdirectory for your project like http://some.url/myproject/controller/, then you also need to add setBaseUrl to your bootstrap file.

bootstrap('frontController');
        $frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $frontController->setBaseUrl('/myproject'); // set the base url!
    }
}

The nginx rewrite would look like this:

location /myproject/ {
  if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^/myproject/(.*)$ /index.php?$1? last;
  }
}

PS The question mark is not typo!