Nginx and Drupal 7

No problems yet. I set up a test site at http://e.brianmercer.com with devel and xhprof.

My nginx config is a little slimmer with D7 since they've resolved the http://drupal.org/index.php?q=/ problem. Are you using the same config as on the nginx wiki? How are you doing PHP?

Thank you Grace and Brian. I've tried sorting out this snafu. But no dice. In the browser everything is snappy.

I ended up removing a bunch of PHP extensions I don't use and increasing the number of workers in nginx. My d7 install is a standard one. There's no "X-Generator" header in the CLI reply (curl or netcat). Although I can see it in firebug, hence it works in the browser.

This is really strange. Drush hangs, if enabling or disabling a module. Although the action gets done.

My nginx config is on github. It's basically that one that I'm using for d7. Thank you Brian for tipping me on the fact that d7 no longer needs a regex capturing pattern in the rewrite. I checked the .htaccess and in fact it just checks for the file and if not found it invokes index.php.

My @drupal in the nginx config is:

I use php-cgi, no fpm. The php-cgi init script is also on github.

Well I've posted an issue regarding this. Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks,
António

nginx.conf

index index.html;
    fastcgi_index index.php;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  www.example.com example.com;
        root /path/to/drupal;
        include drupal_params;
    }

drupal_params

location = / {
  rewrite ^ /index.php;
}

location = /index.php {
  include fastcgi_drupal;
  break;
}

#  Disable after installation
location = /install.php {
  include fastcgi_drupal;
  break;
}

#  Disable if using Drush for update
location = /update.php {
  include fastcgi_drupal; 
  break;
}

# Disable if using Drush for cron
location = /cron.php {
  include fastcgi_drupal;
  break;
}


# Disable if not using any xmlrpc services
#location = /xmlrpc.php {
#  include fastcgi_drupal;
#}

# Let the browser cache resource files
location ~* ^/.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|js)$ {
  access_log      off;
  expires         45d;
}

# Imagecache urls need to go through drupal to create the missing image derivatives
location ~ ^/sites/.*?/files/imagecache/ {
  access_log      off;
  expires         45d;
  try_files $uri @drupal;
}

# Everything else in public:// can be served directly.
location ~ ^/sites/.*?/files/ {}

# Default: first try directly, then through Drupal
location ~ ^/ {
try_files $uri @drupal;
}

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

fastcgi_drupal

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          "";
fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED    $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
fastcgi_param  HOSTNAME           $server_name;

fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/tmp/php.socket;

Of course, that last line will probably vary with your installation.

I compiled nginx 0.8.53 from source, adding the headers-more-nginx-module, and PHP 5.3.4 from source, adding APC-3.1.6. Compiled xapian as a separate module because I couldn't figure out how to add it statically.

I applied the following patch to APC to eliminate erroneous "GC cache entry" warnings:

Running php-fpm, nginx, and MySQL (also custom-compiled) under runit. Converted all tables to InnoDB and tweaked MySQL using mysqltuner.

I'm currently using the following homebrew script to install/upgrade Drupal. (No, I don't actually use all those modules, but I've verified that they're all installable under D7):

Firstly hello drupal community. Nice to meet you all. I've been running d6 for a couple of years now, mostly for hosting other people rather than doing my own sites. Anyhow, I've managed to get drupal running on nginx/fastcgi php quite happily. In fact, I did a little benchmark of drupal 7 to compare apache Vs nginx performance. There's a video of the bench mark over there.

Anyhow the long and short of it was that I got an extra 50 requests a second with a 3 point lower load (as measured by top) on nginx/fastcgi-php compared to apache/mod_php with ab running 10000 requests on my laptop.