nginx configuration for the lazy CakePHP developer

nginx + CakePHP 3 development environment for lazy devs

# Use only in your development environment, behind a firewall

sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
echo 'address=/.3dev/127.0.0.1' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnsmasq.conf 
echo 'listen-address=127.0.0.1' | sudo tee -a /etc/dnsmasq.conf 
sudo service dnsmasq restart

# now imlazy.3dev will resolve to localhost

# install nginx + php7

###########################################
# create this file in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
###########################################

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
	worker_connections 768;
}

http {
	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	keepalive_timeout 65;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
	ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

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

	gzip on;
	gzip_disable "msie6";

	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

####################################################
# create this file in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/cake3
####################################################

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name ~^(?<domain>.+)\.3dev$; 
    root /var/virtual/$domain/webroot;
    index  index.php;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/$host-access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/$host-error.log;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

	#configure with your debugmail username/password and your database root username and password
	fastcgi_param DEBUG 1;
	fastcgi_param EMAIL_TRANSPORT_DEFAULT_URL smtp://YOUREMAIL:YOURPASSWORD@debugmail.io:25?tls=null&client=null&timeout=30;
	fastcgi_param DATABASE_URL mysql://my_app:secret@localhost/$domain;
	fastcgi_param DATABASE_TEST_URL mysql://my_app:secret@localhost/${domain}_test;
    }
}

# Now imlazy.3dev will point to a CakePHP 3 app located in /var/virtual/imlazy and the app database will point to a MySQL db imlazy
# Setting up a new project would be 
# git clone XXX /var/virtual/project
# composer, etc
# mysql -umy_app -psecret -e "create database project"
# and you are done