Tag: nginx

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Restart Nginx Locally Mac

sudo brew services stop nginx
sudo brew services start nginx

Sudo because I have it bound to :80, which is otherwise not allowed.

Seems to work better than singular restart command (I think)

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Nginx on Homebrew

Feb 2020 – replacing Apache with Nginx to fix broken dev env.

Nginx with PHP-FPM was giving 404 because the script name wasn’t being forwarded to PHP-FPM.

Needed this inside the fast_cgi file. It wasn’t there by default, but some random Googling turned it up 🙁

fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

Various Paths and Notes

  • Need system Apache to be off. (sudo apachectl stop)
  • May need to (re)start nginx and php-fpm
  • Create new local domains in /usr/local/etc/nginx/servers
  • nginx -t to test config
  • sudo nginx -s reload

Nginx may start as non-sudo/root user and lack permission to bind to :80

In that case I brew services stop nginx, then sudo brew services start nginx.

Paths

  • /usr/local/etc/nginx/ (nginx config)
  • /usr/local/var/www (old default location, I have since changed to my user /Code dir)
  • /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/
  • /usr/local/etc/php/7.4/php-fpm.d/www.conf
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Servers

Moving Site Off Nginx

When you move a website and change its DNS A record you will need to delete it from the old Nginx server. Otherwise when Nginx reboots (e.g. after a certificate renewal) it will fail DNS resolution.

I believe this can be changed, but by default Nginx will break when the DNS connection (even of an unrelated site) changes.