This is turning into a larger set of changes...
opinions welcome
--
Michael Lustfield
diff --git a/debian/conf/sites-available/default b/debian/conf/sites-available/default
index 79e41e8..d6d0d7b 100644
--- a/debian/conf/sites-available/default
+++ b/debian/conf/sites-available/default
@@ -35,41 +35,50 @@ server {
root /var/www/html;
- # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
- # First attempt to serve request as file, then
- # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
+ # This will first try to serve the static file requested. If this
+ # is not found, then see if the path is a directory. If it is a
+ # directory, check for the existance of index files in the order
+ # presented by the index directive and serve if a matche is found.
+ # The last parameter is a fallback and must always exist. This
+ # example will return a 404 respones if no files are found.
+ #
+ # This represents the default try_files directive:
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
- # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
+ # Pass the PHP scripts to a FastCGI application server
+ # in some cases, "index.php" should be added to the (above) index directive
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
- #
- # # With php5-cgi alone:
- # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
- # # With php5-fpm:
- # fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
+ # # If using php-fpm, this is the default socket location. If you have
+ # # a different version of php-fpm installed, this may be different.
+ # fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.0-fpm.sock
#}
- # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
- # concurs with nginx's one
+ # If your web application was designed to be run on apache, it likely
+ # has .htaccess and possibly a .htpasswd file embedded. It is typically
+ # recommended to remove access to these files.
#
- #location ~ /\.ht {
- # deny all;
- #}
+ # If you are using apache as your application server, we strongly
+ # recommend looking into uwsgi as an alternative.
+ #
+ location ~ /\.ht {
+ deny all;
+ }
}
# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
#
-# You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
-# to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
+# You can create files underneath the sites-available/ directory and symlink to
+# them from sites-enabled/. Once nginx has been reloaded, the changes will take
+# effect. (service nginx reload)
#
#server {
# listen 80;
@@ -81,6 +90,6 @@ server {
# index index.html;
#
# location / {
-# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
+# try_files $uri =404;
# }
#}
