silverstripe-framework/docs/en/installation/nginx.md

Nginx

These instructions are also covered on the Nginx Wiki.

The prerequisite is that you have already installed Nginx and you are able to run PHP files via the FastCGI-wrapper from Nginx.

Now you need to set up a virtual host in Nginx with the following configuration settings:

server {
	listen 80;
	root /path/to/ss/folder;

	server_name site.com www.site.com;

	location / {
		try_files $uri /framework/main.php?url=$uri&$query_string;
	}

	error_page 404 /assets/error-404.html;
	error_page 500 /assets/error-500.html;

	location ^~ /assets/ {
		sendfile on;
		try_files $uri =404;
	}

	location ~ /framework/.*(main|rpc|tiny_mce_gzip)\.php$ {
		fastcgi_keep_conn on;
		fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
		fastcgi_index  index.php;
		fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		include        fastcgi_params;
	}

	location ~ /(mysite|framework|cms)/.*\.(php|php3|php4|php5|phtml|inc)$ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~ /\.. {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~ \.ss$ {
		satisfy any;
		allow 127.0.0.1;
		deny all;
	}

	location ~ web\.config$ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~ \.ya?ml$ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ^~ /vendor/ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~* /silverstripe-cache/ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~* composer\.(json|lock)$ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~* /(cms|framework)/silverstripe_version$ {
		deny all;
	}

	location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_keep_conn on;
                fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include        fastcgi_params;
	}
}

The above configuration sets up a virtual host site.com with rewrite rules suited for SilverStripe. The location block for php files passes all php scripts to the FastCGI-wrapper via a TCP socket.

Now you can proceed with the SilverStripe installation normally.