Php – Enabling the PHP readfile function in Virtual Host or .htaccess

The ability to use those same conditional variables in the substitution string makes this a simple fix.

Change

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.example.com/$1 [R,L]

to

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} 80 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R,L]

I use PHP with nginx on my development server with the following configuration:

1. in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf I added: include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; before the last }.

2. run the following commands to create your site configurations:

   mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available/
   mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
   cp /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/<site>
   

3. edit the site configuration, some possible configurations (this is what I referred to in my setup): http://kbeezie.com/view/nginx-configuration-examples/

4. link to the available site to enable it

   ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/<site> /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/<site>
   

5. keep in mind that you can actually include files within the configurations almost anywhere, this makes creating multiple sites easy when you want to throw similar configurations together.

Yes, .htaccess is compareable to the server{} block in nginx, but they are also very different. nginx has a much more lightweight approach to parsing configuration, and it will not scan site directories for additional configuration, only whatever is seen by nginx.conf, goes.