Drupal and Wordpress on Apache and Nginx

Drupal and Wordpress on Apache and Nginx

By devin, 6 March, 2014

My two favourite CMSes and my two favourite web servers. Here are four config files for the same website. Let's assume we have a user devin with two directories in his public_html folder:

/home/devin/public_html/drupal

/home/devin/public_html/wordpress

And then has already created the following logs folders (nginx and Apache have a habit of crashing when you try to specify a non-existent logging directory):

/home/devin/logs/apache/drupal

/home/devin/logs/apache/wordpress

/home/devin/logs/nginx/drupal

/home/devin/logs/nginx/wordpress

And that you've got the following four domains:

WA.devin.uk.to

DA.devin.uk.to

WN.devin.uk.to

DN.devin.uk.to

Then here are the configuration files that should work to host Drupal or Wordpress on Nginx or Apache:

Wordpress on Apache:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName WA.devin.uk.to

  DocumentRoot /home/devin/public_html/wordpress

  ErrorLog /home/devin/logs/apache/wordpress/error.log

  CustomLog /home/devin/logs/apache/wordpress/access.log combined env=!justtesting

  <Directory /home/devin/public_html/wordpress>

    suPHP_Engine on

    AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp .php .php3 .php4 .php5

    suPHP_AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp

    AllowOverride All

    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>

      Order allow,deny

      Allow from all

    </Limit>

    <Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>

      Order deny,allow

      Deny from all

    </Limit>

  </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Drupal on Apache:

<VirtualHost *:80>

  ServerName DA.devin.uk.to

  #or DA.devin.uk.to

  DocumentRoot /home/devin/public_html/drupal

  ErrorLog /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/error.log

  CustomLog /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/access.log combined env=!justtesting

  <Directory /home/devin/public_html/drupal>

    suPHP_Engine on

    AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp .php .php3 .php4 .php5

    suPHP_AddHandler application/x-httpd-suphp

    AllowOverride All

    <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>

      Order allow,deny

      Allow from all

    </Limit>

    <Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>

      Order deny,allow

      Deny from all

    </Limit>

  </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Wordpress on Nginx:

server {

        listen   80;

    

        ## Your website name goes here.

        server_name WN.devin.uk.to;

        ## Your only path reference.

        root /home/devin/public_html/wordpress;

        access_log /home/devin/logs/nginx/wordpress/access.log;

        error_log /home/devin/logs/nginx/wordpress/error.log error;

        ## This should be in your http block and if it is, it's not needed here.

        index index.php index.html index.htm;



        location / {

                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;

        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;

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

        location ~ \.php$ {

                #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

                # With php5-fpm:

                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

                fastcgi_index index.php;

                include fastcgi_params;

        }

        location = /favicon.ico {

                log_not_found off;

                access_log off;

        }



        location = /robots.txt {

                allow all;

                log_not_found off;

                access_log off;

        }



        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {

                expires max;

                log_not_found off;

        }

}

Drupal on Nginx:

server {

        server_name DN.devin.uk.to;

        root /home/devin/public_html/drupal;

        access_log /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/access.log;

        error_log /home/devin/logs/apache/drupal/error.log error;



        # Enable compression, this will help by serving Gzip versions of files.

        gzip_static on;



        location = /favicon.ico {

                log_not_found off;

                access_log off;

        }



        location = /robots.txt {

                allow all;

                log_not_found off;

                access_log off;

        }



        # Very rarely should these ever be accessed outside of your lan

        location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {

                deny all;

        }



        location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {

                return 403;

        }



        # No no for private

        location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ {

                return 403;

        }



        # Block access to "hidden" files and directories whose names begin with a

        # period. This includes directories used by version control systems such

        # as Subversion or Git to store control files.

        location ~ (^|/)\. {

                return 403;

        }



        location / {

                # This is cool because no php is touched for static content

                try_files $uri @rewrite;

        }



        location @rewrite {

                # You have 2 options here

                # For D7 and above:

                # Clean URLs are handled in drupal_environment_initialize().

                rewrite ^ /index.php;

                # For Drupal 6 and bwlow:

                # Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL

                # Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)

                #rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;

        }



        location ~ \.php$ {

                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

                include fastcgi_params;

                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;

                fastcgi_intercept_errors on;

                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

        }



        # Fighting with Styles? This little gem is amazing.

        # This is for D6

        #location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/imagecache/ {

        # This is for D7 and D8

        location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/styles/ {

                try_files $uri @rewrite;

        }



        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {

                expires max;

                log_not_found off;

        }

}

Note: the nginx stuff was plagiarized and adapted, here are my sources:

 

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