Comments on: How to configure nginx to run Kohana on Ubuntu

By: intel352

intel352 — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:13:48 +0000

It’s very possible that the discrepancies I and other users have seen, are due to versions of Nginx used, as Debian tends to distribute a more recent release (or there are more recent PPAs at least, I believe), whereas Redhat distros are running an ancient version.

By: An

An — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:33:55 +0000

Hi Axel,

Regarding the “No input file specified” error I would assume there’s something wrong with the fastcgi pass at line 16. Nevertheless, a url ending with .php is rarely seen if we use a framework like Kohana.
About the -f and -d, you’re right, I was just starting to use nginx then and had very little experience. try_files is much cleaner.

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:22:20 +0000

Hi intel352, sorry for my late reply, I didn’t see your comment. Actually, your configuration doesn’t work when I try to access “.php” files. For instance, if I call:
http://my-kohana.dev/contact
that works well. However, if I call:
http://my-kohana.dev/contact.php
I get a “No input file specified.” error.
Concerning Igor, he doesn’t recommend the use of “-f” and “-d”, that’s what he told me by email when I posted my configuration on the mailing list. The “try_files” functions does the same and seems cleaner.
Why did my solution resulted to frustration? Wasn’t it working for you? Did you notice I use a “public” directory unlike you?
Thks

Axel

By: Scott McDonald

Scott McDonald — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:22:37 +0000

Works great – Thanks!
-Scott
http://www.dnshat.com

By: intel352

intel352 — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:55:10 +0000

Axel, in what way does that config not work for you?
I attempted your solution, which only resulted in frustration, and ended up resorting to a working solution very similar to the above configuration.
If Igor is so against solutions as outlined above, why is that? Can you link us to his post? What is his recommended solution? Can you post *his* solution to what the above config achieves, in a working fashion?

By: Axel

Axel — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:18:22 +0000

Your configuration for Kohana didn’t work at all for me. Plus Igor Sysoev, the nginx creator, doesn’t recommend this method. I wrote a VirtualHost configuration from scratch that works pretty well: http://vidax.net/blog/en/2010/06/kohana-with-nginx-virtualhost-configuration/
The static.xxx.com server is not required for normal users, I posted it as an example.
Thks

By: jmoz

jmoz — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:59:52 +0000

Thanks a lot man, this is exactly what I needed!

By: An

An — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:18:51 +0000

Hi Drew, right now I’m on a Windows box so can’t check this. I remember that I copied the code from the working configuration, but anyway if it works for you in this way or another way, it’s fine

By: drew

drew — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:18:52 +0000

I think there might be a small but important typo:

rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;

Should probably be:

rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;

Notice the slash. I think that without this, kohana was co-opting all the requests, and nginx wasn’t serving up static files! Please correct me if I’m wrong, as this is still very new to me.

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:56:19 +0000

I have just got a blog and use about 50 different plugins. Thank you very much for your plugin. It complete my website