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Basic Nginx Config File

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Adam Birds
Published 10 August 20261 min read1 views

The default server

server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com *.example.com;

location / {
root /var/www/vhosts/example.com/htdocs/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
}

error_page 404 /404.html;
location = /404.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000

location ~ .php$ {
root /var/www/vhosts/example.com/htdocs/;
try_files $uri =404;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

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