Nginx configures PHP's Yii and CakePHP framework's rewrite rule examples

The Yii Nginx rewrite

The following is a rewrite of nginx yii

server {
set $host_path "/data/site/www.ofstack.com";
 access_log /data/logs/nginx/www.ofstack.com_access.log main;
server_name ofstack.com www.ofstack.com;
root $host_path/htdocs;
 set $yii_bootstrap "index.php";
# define charset
 charset utf-8;
location / {
 index index.html $yii_bootstrap;
 try_files $uri $uri/ /$yii_bootstrap?$args;
 }
# deny access to protected directories
 location ~ ^/(protected|framework|themes/w+/views) {
 deny all;
 }
#avoid processing of calls to unexisting static files by yii
 location ~ .(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
 try_files $uri =404;
 }
# prevent nginx from serving dotfiles (.htaccess, .svn, .git, etc.)
 location ~ /. {
 deny all;
 access_log off;
 log_not_found off;
 }
# php-fpm configuration using socket
 location ~ .php {
 fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(.*)$;
#yii catches the calls to unexising PHP files
 set $fsn /$yii_bootstrap;
 if (-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name){
 set $fsn $fastcgi_script_name;
 }
fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock; #  Change it to your equivalent FastCGI
 include fastcgi_params;
 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fsn;
#PATH_INFO and PATH_TRANSLATED can be omitted, but RFC 3875 specifies them for CGI
 fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
 fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fsn;
## Tweak fastcgi buffers, just in case.
 fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
 fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;
 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
 fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
 }
}

Don't forget to restart Nginx once you've configured it.

Nginx rewrite rules for CakePHP
Again, the code example is straightforward. The nginx rewrite rule is as follows

server {
 listen 80;
 server_name www.ofstack.com;
root /data/site/www.ofstack.com;
 index index.php;
access_log /data/logs/nginx/www.ofstack.com_accerss.log;
 error_log /data/logs/nginx/www.ofstack.com_error.log;
# main cakephp rewrite rule
 location / {
 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
 }
location ~ .php$ {
 root /data/site/www.ofstack.com;
 try_files $uri =404;
 fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock; #  Change it to your equivalent FastCGI
 fastcgi_index index.php;
 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
 include fastcgi_params;
 fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
 fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;
 fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
 fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
 }
}

Just restart nginx