There is an excellent article on the Drubuntu group about setting up Apache for use in a local development environment. The best thing about it is the clever use of Apache's VirtualDocumentRoot parameter which allows you to set up an infinite number of sites, using just one Apache Virtual host, greatly reducing the time involved with setting up yet another local development site as part of you local multisite development environment. I can simply create a new directory, a symlink and a local hosts entry and I'm up and running with a new site.
eg.
asite.6, anothersite.6, mysite.6 (for all my drupal 6 sites, running in 1 drupal 6 multisite installation)
asite.7, anothersite.7, mysite.7 (for all my drupal 7 sites, running in 1 drupal 7 multisite installation)
So.. Now I finally got round to getting NginX set up on my local Ubuntu development setup (I have been using it in staging and production for a couple of years), but can't see how to mimic such a setup as the way I had Apache configured...
Any ideas?
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Have you checked out
Have you checked out omega8cc's config for aegir at http://groups.drupal.org/node/26363?
I use a similar setup for my dev server. I'm not using aegir and I'm not familiar with their directory structure, but I use a modified Justin Hileman (http://justinhileman.info/articles/a-more-secure-drupal-multisite-install) setup but with another layer of symlinks which lets me change things easier.
@mrfelton
To follow brianmercer, here is simple how-to for all interested in using catch-all nginx configuration, also for Drupal 7.x.
BTW: Aegir doesn't support 7.x as platforms yet/
root /var/www/$host/;to enable catch-all nginx configmkdir -p /var/www/6mkdir -p /var/www/7
ln -s /var/www/6 /var/www/asite.6ln -s /var/www/6 /var/www/anothersite.6
ln -s /var/www/6 /var/www/mysite.6
ln -s /var/www/7 /var/www/asite.7
ln -s /var/www/7 /var/www/anothersite.7
ln -s /var/www/7 /var/www/mysite.7
sites/domainDone. To add new site, you don't need to reload/restart nginx. Just create new symlink and new (multi)site dir.
~Grace -- Drupal on Steroids -- http://omega8.cc
Yes, that does work, and is
Yes, that does work, and is what I'm doing. However, what about the Imagecache directory which you need to specify the path to in the nginx conf:
# imagecache needs to have php read any files that it's planning to manipulatelocation ^~ /sites/example.com/files/imagecache/ {
index index.php index.html;
# assume a clean URL is requested, and rewrite to index.php
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
break;
}
}
This has the sites hostname hardcoded, so I have to have this entry duplicated for each imagecache directory? Or, perhaps I could alter it to use $host, or some different regex... Got a snippet?!
--
Tom
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@mrfelton
You don't need that
/sites/example.compart.Use just
/files/imagecache/for catch-all.Omega8cc's updated config
Omega8cc's updated config has:
location ^~ /blog/files/imagecache/ {access_log off;
expires 30d;
try_files $uri @drupal; #imagecache support
}
though the "/blog" part looks like a copy/paste error.
I use roughly the same:
# imagecache needs to process the 404 for missing images so it can create themlocation ^~ /files/imagecache/ {
access_log off;
expires 30d;
error_page 404 @drupal;
}
I can't think of any difference between using try_files or error_page. They seem equivalent. Using an if is not preferred.
@brianmercer
Thanks, that
/blog/was a copy/paste error, now fixed there.perfect - thanks!
perfect - thanks!
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Tom
www.systemseed.com - drupal development. drupal training. drupal support.
A better way of doing this...
A better way of doing this when using separate code bases...
server {
listen :80;
server_name ~^(.+).domain.com$;
if ($host ~ "^(.+).domain.com$") {
set $site $1;
}
root /var/www/$site;
access_log /var/log/nginx/autohost.access.log combined;
error_log /var/log/nginx/autohost.error.log;
#more stuff
}