setting up codeigniter on nginx,,

#1 / Apr 06, 2011 10:49pm

gunfire20
2 posts

hello guys…let me introduce my self as nubie in ci…
uhm i have little problem here actually…
i develope ci on apache on my desktop then i want it to online on nginx..
then the problems begin,,,
i cant load the default controller, and it just appear error 404
any one could help me,, i try few tutorials and its not working,,
i’ll really appreciate if you guys could help me,,,
thx….
😊
#2 / Apr 07, 2011 12:39am

Sire
109 posts

Please post your nginx configuration for the CI site.
#3 / Apr 07, 2011 12:46am

gunfire20
2 posts

Please post your nginx configuration for the CI site.

thx for response:
in config.php:
$config[‘base_url’] = “http://www.jaxjakarta.com/”;
$config[‘index_page’] = “index.php”;
$config[‘uri_protocol’] = “PATH_INFO”;
i must use get in this site,,so i cant choose REQUEST_URI
here is the nginx configuration:
location / {
root /home/jaxjkt/public_html;
index index.html index.php;
if (-f $request_filename) {
expires max;
break;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite . /index.php last;
}
}

location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|swf|wav)$ {
expires max;
}

location ~ \.php {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/jaxjkt/public_html/index.php;
fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

any ideas?

#4 / Apr 25, 2011 6:12am

Bangon Kali

13 posts

Hi, I just recently tried to setup my CI project on Nginx. I’m using Nginx 1.0.0 (Stable) on Amazon Micro Linux AMI.

This is the best I could come for the configuration:

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;
    
    upload_progress uploads 100M; 
    
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  ec2-175-41-199-2.ap-northeast-1.compute.amazonaws.com;

    client_max_body_size 10m;
    
        #charset koi8-r;

        #access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;

        location / {
            root   /usr/local/nginx/html;
            index  index.php index.html index.htm;
        }

    # enforce NO www
    if ($host ~* ^www\.(.*))
    {
        set $host_without_www $1;
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ $scheme://$host_without_www/$1 permanent;
    }
 
    # canonicalize codeigniter url end points
    # if your default controller is something other than "welcome" you 
    # should change the following
    if ($request_uri ~* ^(/album(/index)?|/index(.php)?)/?$)
    {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ / permanent;
    }
 
    # removes trailing "index" from all controllers
    if ($request_uri ~* index/?$)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.*)/index/?$ /$1 permanent;
    }
 
    # removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues)
    if (!-d $request_filename)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
    }
 
    # removes access to "system" folder, also allows a "System.php" 
    # controller
    if ($request_uri ~* ^/system)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
        break;
    }
 
    # unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send 
    # to bootstrap
    if (!-e $request_filename)
    {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
        break;
    }

        #error_page  404              /404.html;

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   html;
        }

        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        location ~ \.php$ {
            root           html;
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /usr/local/nginx/html$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }

        # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
        # concurs with nginx's one
        #
        location ~ /\.ht {
            deny  all;
        }
    }
}

Because my solution is so messed up, I had to zero-length the base_url in order for it to work. Because if I put something in there, it gets prefixed to the main URL. For example if the URL the user is using to get to my site is mysite.com/welcome/index the final URL becomes mysite.com/mysite.com/welcome/index. It’s very bad, the only solution I found to fix it is this.

$config['base_url']     = '';

Additionally, when using my configuration (which btw is a fusion of other people’s configuration), you have to include this:

$config['uri_protocol'] = 'REQUEST_URI';

And I don’t know why. But thankfully, with that configuration it works pretty well. I do have a still unsolved problem with file uploads. I still can’t receive file uploads. And I’m still figuring out why. 😖

#5 / May 09, 2011 3:18am

CloudGroup
2 posts

If you’re receiving a 404 on codeigniter using nginx, there’s a interesting article here which addresses the re-write rules for nginx

CodeIgniter NGINX Rewrite Rules

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