nginx configuration example for CakePHP 2.x

cakephp2.conf

#
# nginx configuration example for CakePHP 2.x
#
server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  cakephp2.example;
    root         /var/www/cakephp2/app/webroot;

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/cakephp2.access.log;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/cakephp2.error.log;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include        fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    }

    location ~ \.php/ {
        include        fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
        fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
        fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED  $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location = /robots.txt {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    #error_page  404              /404.html;
    #location = /404.html {
    #    root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    #}

    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
    #
    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
    location = /50x.html {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /(\.ht|\.user.ini|\.git|\.hg|\.bzr|\.svn) {
        deny  all;
    }
}