Blog posts tagged with configuration

Setting up a PHP development environment with Nginx on Ubuntu 11.04

I already described how to prepare a PHP development environment with Nginx on Ubuntu 10.04. Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) simplifies the procedure a lot since php-fpm is available in the PHP 5.3 core. As I also managed to improve my Nginx configuration for PHP I decided to write on the subject again.

Nginx configuration for Symfony projects

Recent release of Nginx 1.0.0 triggered me to refresh my knowledge about its configuration options. There were quite some additions since I looked in the docs for the last time. New variables and directives let me to simplify my configuration for Symfony projects (both 1.x and 2).

Setting up a PHP development environment with nginx on Ubuntu 10.04

Nginx is a lightweight http, proxy and load balancing server. It's a serious alternative for a widely used apache. Most important advantages of nginx on a production environments are speed and small amount of memory it uses. In a development environment I really like the simple and flexible configuration. Here's a guide how to quickly prepare PHP development environment with nginx on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

Symphony CMS on nginx

I decided to give a Symphony CMS a try because of its XSLT templating system and structured approach in creating websites. As most of PHP applications it's running on apache out of the box. Since I preffer using nginx I've encountered small problems with the configuration.