I am trying to figure out how best to use Nginx as proxy for serving PHP (via PHP5-FPM), Python (via gunicorn) and NodeJS. My current default file in the sites-available directory is copied below. Should I be attempting to configure multiple servers or make other changes in order to enable this functionality? Thanks in advance.
Update:
Currently, with the current config, Nginx is serving as a proxy to NodeJS application. However, it is no longer serving PHP content anymore. Should I be using a different server in the default file and if so, should I be able to use the same listening port but just use a different server_name and use the location tag to differentiate between the requests?
I am trying to route certain URL requests to a PHP application (in /var/www – I switched from /usr/share/nginx) as well as to Python and Nodejs backends.
One thought that I have not implemented is to try multiple upstream and have the PHP setup in the main server – would that work i.e. have one upstream for NodeJS, one for Python and then the server for PHP.
upstream test {
server 0.0.0.0:3002;
keepalive 500;
}
server {
listen 81 default_server;
listen [::]:81 default_server; ##remove this?
root /var/www/; ##switched from /usr/share/nginx
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name localhost;
location / {
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_set_header X-Nginx-Proxy true;
proxy_set_header Connection "";
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_pass http://0.0.0.0:3002;
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
allow ::1;
deny all;
}
# Only for nginx-naxsi used with nginx-naxsi-ui : process denied requests
location /RequestDenied {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:4242;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# # With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
# another virtual host using mix of IP-, name-, and port-based configuration
#
server {
listen 82;
root /var/www/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name php;
location ~ /testPHP { //testPHP is part of URL/directory name in /var/www/
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
Best Answer
Not sure if this was the best way of approaching but it helped me achieve what I wanted. I simply created a new server setup for the proxy and used one server for serving php content.