NGINX + php-fpm + Symfony 1.4 = :(

Question

Ugh, been trying to get NGINX/php-fpm to play nicely with SF 1.4 for a few days now, and can't quite seem to nail down the proper config. I followed the nginx symfony guide as well as this SO post, but neither helped, and I suspect it may be because they were being configured against older versions of NGINX (I am working with 1.6.2).

Here is my config:

server {

    listen 51000;

    server_name example.mpurcell.dev.example.com;
    access_log /tmp/access.log;
    error_log /tmp/error.log notice;
    root /home/mpurcell/projects/j1n/app/example/current/code/web/;

    index index.php;

    location ~ ^/(app|app_dev)(/|$) {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
    }

    location ~ ^/(app|app_dev).php(/|$) {

        try_files $uri =404;

        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;

        if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
                return 404;
        }

        fastcgi_param SERVICE_ENV 'dev';
        fastcgi_param HTTPS off;

        # http://wiki.nginx.org/Symfony
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;

        fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock;
    }
}

And the various responses:

$ -> curl -v 10.0.0.7:51000

# Expected
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Server: nginx/1.6.2
< Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:34:10 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Location: /app

$ -> curl -v 10.0.0.7:51000/app.php

# Expected
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx/1.6.2
< Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:37:48 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Cache-Control: private

$ -> curl -v 10.0.0.7:51000/app

# Not expected, the script executes but SF throws a 404 with the following error
#  Empty module and/or action after parsing the URL "/app" (/).
< HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
< Server: nginx/1.6.2
< Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 23:39:09 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Cache-Control: private

And it sure looks like the rewrite rule from the vhost config is working:

2014/10/01 23:40:30 [notice] 9668#0: *13 "^(.*)$" matches "/app", client: 10.0.0.3, server: example.mpurcell.dev.example.com, request: "GET /app HTTP/1.1", host: "dev-a-2:51000"
2014/10/01 23:40:30 [notice] 9668#0: *13 rewritten data: "/app.php", args: "", client: 10.0.0.3, server: example.mpurcell.dev.example.com, request: "GET /app HTTP/1.1", host: "dev-a-2:51000"

And for the sake of completness, the cgi.fix_pathinfo is default (=1), and I don't really want to set this to 0.

Also, I should note that relative_url_root for the app controller is set to empty string, as it is located in the root web directory.

Stack:

nginx 1.6.2
php-fpm 5.4.33
php 5.4.33

Answer 1

So I finally got Symfony and php-fpm to play nicely with each other, and one big piece of that puzzle was to swap out apache for nginx. IMO, the rewrite syntax for nginx > apache. So here is an example of my current app server config:

location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last;
}

location /admin {
    rewrite ^/admin/(.*)$ /admin/index.php/$1 last;
}

location /app {
    rewrite ^/app/(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last;
}

location ~ index\.php {
    ...
}

I did have to create sub dirs for each controller in the web dir, like this:

/web
    index.php
    app.php
    admin.php

/web
    /app/index.php
    /admin/index.php

I've had this config in prod now for about 2 months with 0 issues, so hopefully this helps other old school symfonians as well.