MODX friendly URLs on Nginx

Never mind, don’t use that one. In an nginx environment its better not to use an if statement, so try this one:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.modxsite.com modxsite.com;
    root /path/to/www.modxsite.com;
    index index.php index.html;
 
    location / {
        #try to get file directly, try it as a directory or fall back to modx
        try_files $uri $uri/ @modx;
    }
 
    location @modx {
        #including ? in second rewrite argument causes nginx to drop GET params, so append them again
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1&$args;
    }
 
    location ~ \.php(.*)$ {
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}

Please give a report if you got any luck with this config

I haven’t used MODx before but nginx is pretty smooth to use. You probably need something like this:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name modxsite.com
        root /home/sites/modxsite.com;
        index index.php;
        client_max_body_size 30M;
        location / {
                root /home/sites/modxsite.com;
                if (!-e $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
                }
        }
        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_ignore_client_abort on;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME $http_host;
        }
 
        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny  all;
        }
}

Try to use that, and please give a report when done. Hope this will work for you.

You answered just as I was posting my first response.

Your second solution (omiting the if statement also works).

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name site.co.uk;
        root /home/path/to/www;
        index index.php;
        

        ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;


        charset utf-8;
        
        location / {
            #try to get file directly, try it as a directory or fall back to modx
            try_files $uri $uri/ @modx;
        }
    
        location @modx {
            #including ? in second rewrite argument causes nginx to drop GET params, so append them again
            rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1&$args;
        }
    
        location ~ \.php(.*)$ {
            include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        }
        
        location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
        location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

        access_log off;
        error_log  /var/log/nginx/site.co.uk-error.log error;

        error_page 404 /index.php;
        

        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny  all;
        }
}

Hi,

Thanks for the fast response. Your answer helped a lot!

The part:

location / {
            root /home/forge/gowildinwirksworth.co.uk/www;
            if (!-e $request_filename) {
                    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
            }
    }

was crucial.

My whole config files now looks like:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name site.co.uk;
    root /home/path/to/www;

    # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    # ssl_certificate;
    # ssl_certificate_key;

    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
            root /home/path/to/www;
            if (!-e $request_filename) {
                    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
            }
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/site-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

For others that might be looking for the same thing, I’m using MODX 2.3.5 and have the Friendly URLs system setting ON.

Thanks again.