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Joomla Nginx Config

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Adam Birds
Published 10 August 20261 min read1 views

Here is the Nginx Config for Joomla:

upstream examplecombackend {
server unix:/var/run/php-fcgi-examplecom.sock;
}

server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
server_name_in_redirect off;

access_log /var/www/vhosts/example.com/access.log;
error_log /var/www/vhosts/example.com/error.log warn;

root /var/www/vhosts/example.com/htdocs;
index index.php index.html index.htm default.html default.htm;

# Support Clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

# deny running scripts inside writable directories
location ~* /(images|cache|media|logs|tmp)/.*\.(php|pl|py|jsp|asp|sh|cgi)$ {
return 403;
error_page 403 /403_error.html;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass  examplecombackend;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
}

# caching of files
location ~* \.(ico|pdf|flv)$ {
expires 1y;
}

location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|swf|xml|txt)$ {
expires 14d;
}

}
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