The Nginx with PHP5-FPM config example for Symfony Framework

symfony.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    
    server_name symfony.localhost www.symfony.localhost;
    root /var/www/symfony/web;

    error_log /var/log/nginx/symfony.error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/symfony.access.log;

    # strip app_dev.php/ prefix if exists
    rewrite ^/app_dev\.php/?(.*)$ /$1 permanent;

    location / {
        index app_dev.php app.php;
        try_files $uri @rewriteapp;
    }

    location @rewriteapp {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /app_dev.php/$1 last;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server from upstream phpfcgi
    location ~ ^/(app|app_dev|config)\.php(/|$) {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param HTTPS off;
    }
}