Symfony Notes

The following config file allows you to host symfony based website with Nginx web server.

server {
	listen   80;
	server_name  www.your-url.com;

               #Enable Gzip
	gzip on;
	gzip_min_length 1000;
	gzip_types text/plain application/xml;
	gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.";

              #where to put log files
	access_log  /var/log/nginx/your-url.com.access.log;

              #project's main directory
	root /full/path/web/;

              #change the following to index.php on production server.
	index front_dev.php;

	charset utf-8;

	location /sf {
                  #path to folder where all symfony assets are located
	    alias /full/path/lib/symfony/data/web/sf;
	}

	location / {
	    # If the file exists as a static file serve it directly without
	    # running al	l the other rewite tests on it
	    if (-f $request_filename) {
		expires 1m;
		break;
	      }

	    if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css)$") {
                            #change front_dev to index.php on production server
		rewrite ^(.*) /front_dev.php$1 last;
		  }
	}

	location ~ "^(.+\.php)($|/)" {

	    set $script $uri;
	    set $path_info "/";

	    if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)($|/)") {
		set $script $1;
	      }

	    if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") {
		set $script $1;
		set $path_info $2;
	      }

	  include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
	  fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

	  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /full/path/web$script;
	  fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $script;
	  fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
	}
}

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