http vhost

gistfile1.nginxconf

server {
	# we want to listen on port 80 on all IPs on our system - both IPv4 and IPv6
	listen [::]:80;
	# our primary server name is the first, aliases simply come after it. you can also include wildcards like *.example.com
	server_name blog.chrismeller.com new.chrismeller.com;

	# where are our site files stored?
	root /media/www/public_html/blog.chrismeller.com/public;

	# define our access and error logs for this vhost
	access_log /media/www/public_html/blog.chrismeller.com/logs/access.log;
	error_log /media/www/public_html/blog.chrismeller.com/logs/error.log;

	# very important, php won't work without this - it sets a bunch of the server
	# values that it expects
	include fastcgi_params;

	# we are very simple - any requests that don't match one of the later location blocks we
	# define will be matched by this one
	location / {

		# for habari, i want to redirect any requests for the admin or login pages
		# to the ssl versions, to protect any potential sensitive input
		rewrite ^/(admin|auth)(.*) https://$host$request_uri?;

		# the magic. this is the equivalent of all those lines you use for mod_rewrite in Apache
		# if the request is for "/foo", we'll first try it as a file. then as a directory. and finally
		# we'll assume its some sort of "clean" url and hand it to index.php so our CMS can work with it
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

		# $is_args will be '?' if there is a GET string, or '' if there isn't
		# $args is obviously then the GET string, or '' if there isn't one
	}

	# remember that PHP-FPM status URL we setup? we want to support it for this
	# vhost. so if the request is for /status, hand that back to
	# PHP using our named upstream server
	location /status {
		fastcgi_pass php;
	}

	# this is identical, but for the ping URL we setup
	location /ping {
		fastcgi_pass php;
	}

	# and finally, the magic that makes PHP work. if the file being requested ends in ".php"
	# it's something that PHP-FPM should process, so hand it to our named upstream server
	location ~ \.php$ {
		fastcgi_pass php;
	}
}