Using MODx with nginx webserver (like lighttpd)

There shouldn’t be any problems with it; the only tricky part would be setting up the equivalent .htaccess rewrite rules. As long as PHP and MySQL are working, MODx won’t care.

Hey Stefan,

Some handy info there, thank you.

To translate Apache rewrites over to Nginx equivalents, try this cool tool ..

http://www.anilcetin.com/convert-apache-htaccess-to-nginx/

And if all that doesn’t work, set down what you’re trying to do and I’ll see if I can help.

At guvnr, I’m just posting up some VPS Admin tuts now about some basic rewrites too, if that helps.

Best2u.

I also tried to install MODx with nginx, (thanks the_guv for writing nice tutorial for vps). MODx Evo runs fantastically without any issues.

It was very first attempt at Linux server command line stuff for me. Either I did good job or tutorials/information was real good. (I think the later though.)

However, MODx Revolution is not working on my vps atm. I am going to re-build the VPS with less hacking (read errors) again and will try again.

Please keep your experiences posted here related to nginx and MODx!

Thanks.

Quote from: zi at Aug 13, 2009, 02:43 PM

However, MODx Revolution is not working on my vps atm.

hey zi,

tx for kind words .. praise indeed from you, sir.

tell me, did you sort revolution?

i have a copy of 0963 working fine on nginx, for the record, but I know that’s a bit old fashioned

splendid to make your acquaintance .. i recall some of your modx forum comments have helped me too, thank you.

I haven’t tried Revolution, but I’m running Evolution without any problems. Perhaps I’ll load up a new virtual server and mess with it. I’m looking to move away from Wordpress, so this might be an interesting project to do it with (of course, I will document and post it...)

I tried upgrading this week to PHP 5.3 running PHP-FPM. Didn’t go too bad, except, APC would not compile into PHP (kept getting errors). I used the dotdeb packages, after trying to get 5.3 to compile and install properly, but no luck. It was a nightmare (Running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty). FPM ran well, I just didn’t feel like compiling and the config’s etc were completely in different places. I guess I’ll wait for an official Ubuntu package for 5.3 and php-fpm (I read php-fpm is supposed to be bundled into 5.3). I have to mess with it in a VM first to get the trick.

Also:



The .php Should probably include a (.*) after it (if you see my original). If you pass parameters as:

index.php/someparameters/another one

Which is parsed (as a ghetto mod-rewrite type thing), then it will also parse that file. I have a post about that:
http://nsslive.net/2009/03/03/pretty-php-urls-without-mod_rewrite/

Works like a charm - ty very much!

I’m new doing this but I am having fun while doing it. I had problems setting up the friendly urls but I managed to do it by adding the following:



I’m not done testing the site tho, I’ll post anything else here if I find more info.

Jose R. Lopez

I felt like doing some tests between my server with apache and the one with nginx and I was shocked. Please don’t assume my values as a benchmark, this was just a heavy page which usually takes a long time to load that I decided to test through both web servers (its a gallery page using maxigallery with a crap load of pictures and thumbnails).

The slower test is a live site (though I tested while there was not much traffic). It is running CENTOS5 on a vps.

Document Parsing Data:
MySQL: 0.1113 s
440 request(s)
PHP: 4.3042 s
total: 4.4155 s
document retrieved from database.

and exactly the same page but on a vps with Ubuntu 10.04 and using nginx with fastcgi using php-fpm.

Document Parsing Data:
MySQL: 0.0796 s
440 request(s)
PHP: 1.7076 s
total: 1.7872 s
document retrieved from database.

Both VPS have exactly the same spec and they are both in the same server node (its a Virtuozzo setup).

Like I said, this is in no way a benchmark but more like a quick test of the same page on different setups.

Cheers,
Jose R. Lopez

Hi,

Im using php5.3 on nginx 0.8.53 with FPM on revo.

When trying the mentioned configuration, all I get is 404’s.
Friendly url’s is turned on, friendly aliases is turned off. (so the suffix is dropped)

I’ve also added this:


Without any luck.

Im short in time, so I cannot really delve into this


Any help is appreciated!
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I got it to work!

friendly aliases was off, goes i thought *that* would get rid of suffix
after editing content types, turning back friendly_aliases things started working )

this i had wrong too:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/www/mylogin/htdocs/$fastcgi_script_name;
Which has to point to the document_root. And was wrong in the original config
for nginx+fpm setup. Website i cannot remember. But it stated /scripts/$fastcgi_script_name;

well, going to sleep now and setup the rest of the site!