Serving from home directories with Nginx + PHP5-fpm

homedir.nginx

# Serving from home directories 
# With Nginx + PHP5-fpm
#
# NOTE: The order of these blocks CANNOT be changed
#
# Stephen J Radachy <sjradach@mtu.edu>

# Enable PHP within home directories
location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*\.php)$ {
	alias /home/$1/public_html;
	autoindex on;
	include fastcgi_params;
	try_files $2 = 404;
	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
	fastcgi_index index.php;
}

# Enable PHP on entire site
location ~ \.php$ {
	try_files $uri = 404;
	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
	fastcgi_index index.php;
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
	include fastcgi_params;
}

# Enable serves from home directories
location ~ ^/~(.+?)(/.*)?$ {
	alias /home/$1/public_html$2;
	index index.html index.htm index.php;
	autoindex on;
}