Dexter's Laboratories

The webrick of redmine has couple of performance issues, so I was looking for an alternative solution to avoid the use of Apache and its proxy features. As already I use nginx it was clear to use it. The proxy is working perfectly with proxy_pass to the webrick, but this still have the performance issues.
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Following the my previous post on nginx and php for the search engine friendly URL edit the virtualhost nginx config file and a localtion

server ~/ $ cat /etc/nginx/sites-available/default.conf
server {
        listen   80 default;
        server_name  _;
 
        access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;
 
        server_name_in_redirect  off;
 
        root   /var/www/;
        index  index.php;
 
       location / {
                root   /var/www/;
                index  index.php index.html index.htm;
            if (!-e $request_filename) { # if the file does not exist 
                rewrite  ^/(.*)$  /index.php?q=$1  last;
                break;
            }
 
        }
 
	location ~ \.php$ {
		include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
	}
 
}

As promised here are some install instruction – or better would be to say how I did it.
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After installing nginx (I will maybe post all steps later). Some basic settings and it is runing. nginx cannot run PHP scripts directly, for this reason you need to use fastcgi.

What do you need for this? 1st the php-cgi installed. To check where it is use

server ~/ : which php-cgi
/usr/bin/php-cgi

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nginx [engine x] is a HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. It has been running for more than five years on many heavily loaded Russian sites including Rambler (RamblerMedia.com). According to Netcraft nginx erved or proxied 4.24% busiest sites in January 2010. Here are some of success stories: FastMail.FM, WordPress.com.

I have tried it and it is a must!