Drupal 6 - Boost - Imagecache. FreeBSD & Apache 2.2 & PHP (as Apache module - no FastCGI) & Nginx 0.8.5.4

Having nginx configured this way:
https://github.com/stanislaw/config_files/blob/master/nginx.conf led Drupal to following behaviour:
All worked okay, if the site was in maintenance mode. Navigating all non-root urls (signed in as admin) was ok. But if I put site to online mode, then I again began to get all there "Page isn't redirecting properly".

Then I tested the same configuration on fresh drupal installiation - it worked in both off- and online modes. Navigation to all clean_urls worked.

I think that config is indeed working, but the site I'm trying to deploy contains so many modules (I am not the author!), that some of them can cause such improper redirects.

I ended up having clean urls in vhosts section for my site leaving this problem for the future. My present config is very similar to the one on github (see the link) but it has clean_urls section commented (I use location / instead of location ~ .php now).

Anyway, I would be very thankful really for any advices & comments on my current config (see nginx.conf on github - link above).

This capture here doesn't make sense to me. If you're proxying to a backend. Let the backend worry about clean URLs.

Hi, I'm glad to see that my post on cloud deployment is still being used. I've significantly changed the nginx configuration. Mainly, it uses try_files rather than if to check for files, which is the recommended way. It also has more custom handling of expires.

Finally, unlike the suggested boost config, it serves cached boost pages even if the user passes a query string, with the cache uri including this query string. I haven't tested this exact config since it's a slightly pared down version of what I actually use.

The "if is evil" page in the nginx documentation is a good read, as well as the following reference to help understand how configuration parsing and "if" works in nginx. http://agentzh.blogspot.com/2011/03/how-nginx-location-if-works.html

server {
  listen   80 default;

  root /var/www/my-site/d7;
  #proxy ip's
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP  $remote_addr;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  proxy_set_header Host $http_host;

  access_log  /var/log/nginx/mysite.log;

  gzip  on;
  gzip_static on;

  gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
  #charset koi8-r;

  # If a file is not found, proxy to apache / Drupal
  error_page 404 = @drupal;

  # deny access to .ht files, .git, etc
  location ~ ^\. {
    deny all;
  }

  location ~* \.(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl)$|^(code-style\.pl|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$ {
    deny all;
  }

  location ~ boost-crawler {
    deny all;
  }

  # try and serve static content. Set expires max to encourage browser caching.
  location ~* \.(txt|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp|flv|pdf|ps|doc|mp3|wmv|wma|wav|ogg|mpg|mpeg|mpg4|htm|zip|bz2|tar|tgz|rar|xls|docx|avi|djvu|mp4|rtf|ico)(\.gz)?$ {
    expires max;
	try_files $request_uri @drupal;
	break;
  }

  # try and serve static content or their boost cache
  location ~* \.(css|js)(\.gz)?$ {
    expires max;
    try_files $request_uri /cache/perm/$http_host$request_uri$boost_query.$1$2 @drupal;
    break;
  }

  # try and serve xml/html files or proxy to drupal. Do not let browser cache (dynamically generated).
  location ~* \.(html|xml)$ {
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache,no-store,must-validate;
	try_files $request_uri @drupal;
	break;
  }

  set $boost_query "_";

  # Serve the boost html page if it exists or goto drupal. Note: unlike js/css,
  # we do not want to cache in browser.
  # Note: caching turned on with get arguments; cached by argument string.
  location / {
    # Do not serve cached pages if they are not GET requests
    if ( $request_method != GET ) {
      return 404;
	  break;
    }
    # Do not serve cached pages if user is logged in
    if ($http_cookie ~ "DRUPAL_UID") {
      return 404;
	  break;
    }
    add_header Cache-Control no-cache,no-store,must-validate;
    try_files /cms/cache/normal/$http_host$request_uri$boost_query$args.html @drupal;
  }

  # Proxy to drupal
  location @drupal {
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/proxy.mysite.access.log;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8000;
  }
}

Thanks for the comments, I'll rework the config. I'm due to look at the nginx config parsing source code.