Wildcard vhosts with nginx on a dev machine 1. Place wildcard.conf in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled or symlink it here 2. Place typo3 in /etc/nginx 3. Adjust the paths. I prefer to hold anything inside ~/public_html (needs adjustments. wire up www-data [or your systems flavor of that) and your current user group. Also let your php-fpm pool use your u…

dnsmasq.conf

address=/t3cmsdev/127.0.0.1
address=/l/127.0.0.1
address=/silex/127.0.0.1
address=/symfony2/127.0.0.1
address=/dev/127.0.0.1

typo3

index index.php index.html;

 location = /favicon.ico {
 log_not_found off;
 access_log off;
 expires max;
 }

 location = /robots.txt {
 allow all;
 log_not_found off;
 access_log off;
 }

 # Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, .DS_Store (Mac).
# location ~ /. {
# deny all;
# access_log off;
# log_not_found off;
# }

 location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ {
 expires max;
 log_not_found off;
 }
 location ~* .(cur|ico|gif|png|jpe?g|css|js|swf|woff)$ {
 expires max;
 log_not_found off;
 }
 location ~* ^(/typo3/sysext|/typo3conf/ext).*.(cur|ico|gif|png|jpe?g|css|js|swf|woff) {
 expires max;
 log_not_found off;
 }
 
 location ~* "\.js\.gzip$" {
        add_header  Content-Encoding  gzip;
        gzip off;
        default_type application/javascript;
        }

     location ~* "\.css\.gzip$" {
        add_header  Content-Encoding  gzip;
        gzip off;
        types { text/css gzip; }
       }
 location = /clear.gif {
 empty_gif;
 expires max;
 }
 location ^~ /typo3/gfx {
 expires max;
 }
 location ^~ /typo3temp/compressor {
 expires max;
 }
 location ~* .(sql|htaccess|htpasswd|tpl|html5|xhtml) {
 deny all;
 }

 location / {
 if ($query_string ~ ".+") {
 return 405;
 }
 # pass requests from logged-in users to PHP
 if ($http_cookie = 'nc_staticfilecache|be_typo_user' ) {
 return 405;
 } # pass POST requests to PHP
 if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD)$ ) {
 return 405;
 }
 if ($http_pragma = 'no-cache') {
 return 405;
 }
 if ($http_cache_control = 'no-cache') {
 return 405;
 }
 error_page 405 = @nocache;

 # serve requested content from the cache if available, otherwise pass the request to PHP
 try_files /typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache/$host${request_uri}index.html @nocache;
 }

 location @nocache {
 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
 }

 location ^~ /typo3temp/tx_ncstaticfilecache {
 expires 43200;
 charset utf-8;
 }

 location ~ .php$ {
 try_files $uri =404;
 include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
 fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
 fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
 fastcgi_index index.php;
 }

wildcard.conf

# TYPO3 Flow/Neos
server {
	listen 80;

	server_name ~^(?<project>.*)\.dev$;
	root /home/cziel/public_html/$project/Web;
		
	client_max_body_size 50M;

	index index.php;

	location ~ /\. {
		deny all;
		access_log off;
		log_not_found off;
	}

	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

	location ~ \.php$ {
		include fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
		fastcgi_index index.php;

		fastcgi_param FLOW_CONTEXT Development;
		fastcgi_param FLOW_REWRITEURLS 1;

		fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
		fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
	}

	location ~ "^/_Resources/Persistent/" {
		rewrite "(.{40})/.+\.(.+)" /_Resources/Persistent/$1.$2 break;
		rewrite "([a-z0-9]+/(.+/)?[a-f0-9]{40})/.+\.(.+)" /_Resources/Persistent/$1.$2 break;
	}

	location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
	}

	location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
		access_log off;
		expires max;
	}

}
# TYPO3 CMS
server {
	server_name ~^(?<project>.*)\.t3cmsdev$;
        root /home/cziel/public_html/$project;
        index index.html index.htm;

        # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
        include /etc/nginx/typo3;
}

# plain jane PHP projects with index.php on project root
server {
	listen 80;

	server_name ~^(?<project>.*)\.l$;
	root /home/cziel/public_html/$project;
		
	client_max_body_size 50M;

	index index.php;

	location ~ /\. {
		deny all;
		access_log off;
		log_not_found off;
	}

	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

	location ~ \.php$ {
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;

                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
        }

	location / {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
	}

	location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
		access_log off;
		expires max;
	}

}

# Silex projects
server {
        listen 80;

        server_name ~^(?<project>.*)\.silex$;
        root /home/cziel/public_html/$project/web;

        client_max_body_size 50M;

        index index.php;

        location ~ /\. {
                deny all;
                access_log off;
                log_not_found off;
        }

        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;

                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
        }

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
        }

        location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
                access_log off;
                expires max;
        }

}
# SF2 Projects
server {
        listen 80;

        server_name ~^(?<project>.*)\.symfony2$;
        root /home/cziel/public_html/$project/web;
	
	# strip app.php/ prefix if it is present
	rewrite ^/app\.php/?(.*)$ /$1 permanent;
 
	location / {
		index app.php;
		try_files $uri @rewriteapp;
	}
 
    	location @rewriteapp {
		rewrite ^(.*)$ /app.php/$1 last;
	}
	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server from upstream phpfcgi
	location ~ ^/(app|app_dev|config)\.php(/|$) {
		include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;

                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
		fastcgi_param  HTTPS off;	
	}
}