NGINX 3

https://blog.engineyard.com/2011/useful-rewrites-for-nginx
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_rewrite_module.html
http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/29830-yii-nginx-urlmanager/

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server {
    listen 443 default_server ssl;
    server_name wifinext wifinext.mydomain.com;
    rewrite ^/$ /mgmt/ permanent;
    server_tokens off;

    ssl_certificate /dati/com.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /dati/com.key;
    ssl_client_certificate /dati/gd_bundle.crt;
   
    ssl_session_timeout 5m;
    keepalive_timeout    70;

    ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
    ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv3:+EXP;
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    root /dati/mydomain/www/management_site;

    location / {
        # First attempt to serve request as file, then
        # as directory, then fall back to index.html
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
        index index.php index.html;
        root /dati/mydomain/www/management_site;
    }

    ## Images and static content is treated different
    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
        access_log        off;
        expires           30d;
        root /dati/mydomain/www/management_site;
    }

    ## Parse all .php file in the /var/www directory
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_pass   backend;
        fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params_yetopen;
    }  

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    location /phpmyadmin {
        root /usr/share/;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
            try_files $uri =404;
            root /usr/share/;
            fastcgi_pass backend;
            include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
            include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params_yetopen;
            fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
        }
        location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
            root /usr/share/;
        }
    }

}
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Standard Yii config vhost nginx
server {
    set $host_path "/www/mysite";
    access_log  /www/mysite/log/access.log  main;

    server_name  mysite;
    root   $host_path/htdocs;
    set $yii_bootstrap "index.php";

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        index  index.html $yii_bootstrap;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /$yii_bootstrap?$args;
    }

    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;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    #
    location ~ \.php {
        fastcgi_split_path_info  ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;

        #let yii catch the calls to unexising PHP files
        set $fsn /$yii_bootstrap;
        if (-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name){
            set $fsn $fastcgi_script_name;
        }

        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        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;
    }

    # prevent nginx from serving dotfiles (.htaccess, .svn, .git, etc.)
    location ~ /\. {
        deny all;
        access_log off;
        log_not_found off;
    }
}
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http://siawyoung.com/coding/sysadmin/nginx/downloading-and-installing-nginx.html
http://kx.cloudingenium.com/linux/ubuntu/build-version-nginx/
https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/examples/full/

dam it :
# location ~ \.(js|css|png|jpg|gif|swf|ico|pdf|mov|fla|zip|rar)$ {
# try_files $uri =404;
# }