Nginx HTTP Server - Fourth Edition

Nginx configuration

If you have managed to configure and start PHP-FPM correctly, you are ready to tweak your Nginx configuration file to establish the connection between both parties. The following server block is a simple, valid template on which you can base your own website configuration:

server { server_name .website.com; # server name, accepting www listen 80; # listen on port 80 root /home/website/www; # our root document path index index.php; # default request filename: index.php location ~* \.php$ { # for requests ending with .php # specify the listening address and port that you configured previously fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # the document path to be passed to PHP-FPM fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; ...