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

This is "official", simple and works nice:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Zend_Framework#Time_for_nginx

Answer 2

server {

 listen   80; ## listen for ipv4
 listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

 server_name  localhost;

 access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;
 error_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.error.log;

 root   /var/www/localhost/public;

 try_files $uri @php_index;

 # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
 #
 location @php_index {
  fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/localhost/index.php;
  include fastcgi_params;
 }
}

It's recommended to use try_files when ever possible.

Answer 3

If it were at all possible, I would recommend that they setup Apache on a nonstandard port accessible only from the Nginx box, and have Nginx proxy to Apache.

Nginx Proxy documentation

Answer 4

For staging server that could help ;)

            fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV staging;

Answer 5

I don't know of any automatic/systematic way to convert the htaccess-file, you'll probably have to do it manually. The Nginx wiki is the best resource for nginx documentation.

Edit: I'm running Zend Framework on Nginx myself now and the config looks like this:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name servername.com;

  root /var/www/zendapp/public;

  location / {
    index index.php;
  }

  # Deny access to sensitive files.
  location ~ (\.inc\.php|\.tpl|\.sql|\.tpl\.php|\.db)$ {
    deny all;
  }
  location ~ \.htaccess {
    deny all;
  }

  # Rewrite rule adapted from zendapp/public/.htaccess
  if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
  }

  # PHP scripts will be forwarded to fastcgi processess.
  # Remember that the `fastcgi_pass` directive must specify the same
  # port on which `spawn-fcgi` runs.
  location ~ \.php$ {
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
  }

  location = /50x.html {
      root   /var/www/default;
  }
}

As you can see, the rewrite rule itself is very simple.

Answer 6

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.

<?php

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{
    protected function _initSomeFancyName()
    {
        $this->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!