Configure nginx to talk to HHVM

[challenges90]

There's no /etc/nginx/sites-available or /etc/nginx/sites-enabled folder in nginx-1.9.0. So the script: sudo /usr/share/hhvm/install_fastcgi.sh will not work. How to fix it ? Please help me.

[r3wt]

build the server block directly into nginx.conf, inside of your http block

example

     server {
        listen 80;
        server_name www.example.com;
        root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
        index index.php;
        server_tokens off;
        add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";    

        location ~ \.(hh|php)$ {
            try_files $uri = 404;
            location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {return 404;}
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_keep_conn on;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/hhvm/hhvm.sock;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }
        location ~* .(png|gif|jpg|jpeg|ico|css|js|woff|ttf|otf|woff2|eot)$ {
            include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
            expires max;
        }   
    }

[jwatzman]

Yeah @r3wt has the right idea -- what the script does isn't that complicated if you want to read it and manually apply the changes.

That said, the script ideally would work anyways :) @challenges90 what Linux distribution are you using, and what version of that distro? How did you install nginx -- did you install it with a package manager, or install it by hand?

[challenges90]

The OS is Ubuntu 14.04 x64. According to http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html#mainline, I install nginx like below:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx
deb-src http://nginx.org/packages/mainline/ubuntu/ trusty nginx
apt-get update
apt-get install nginx

[jwatzman]

Ah, you're using the packages nginx itself provides. Our directions assume you just apt-get install nginx from the official Ubuntu repositories. We should fix this eventually, but low-pri since it only happens if you install a much newer version of nginx yourself.

[jwatzman]

Moving to hhvm/packaging#121