Modular Nginx configuration for PHP

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Modular PHP serving with Nginx

• Simple maps for vhost locations and PHP versions
• Still allows custom vhosts when added manually inside conf.d/

WARNING: I use this setup for local development, it is not meant to be used in production as is.

default.conf

# conf.d/default.conf
server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;

    server_name ~.;

    include php_host.conf;
}

nginx.conf

user www-data www-data;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1;

    include       php_map.conf;

    include       conf.d/*.conf;
}

php_host.conf

charset utf-8;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
root $vhost_root;

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

location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_buffers 16 16k;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
    fastcgi_pass $php_backend;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

php_map.conf

upstream php71 {
    server unix:/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
}

upstream php72 {
    server unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}

map $http_host $php_backend {
    hostnames;
    
    *.appl      "php72";
    *.deve      "php71";
    
    default     "php72";
}

map $http_host $vhost_root {
    hostnames;
    
    *.deve      /var/www/$http_host/public_html;
    *.appl      /var/www/$http_host/public;
    
    default     /var/www/$http_host;
}