If you feel pretty boring with Apache, just like me, so having a try of nginx might be good idea. Although at most of my time, I’m using Windows, fortunately, nginx has native Windows build. So my steps might be helpful to you to try nginx on Windows, especially Windows 7.
1. Download nginx and php and install
- http://nginx.net/
- http://windows.php.net/download/ (I don’t like the installer)
2. Configure nginx and php
- PHP, no specific configuration, just do what you like to php.ini.
- Nginx
Fast-CGI of php
You can find sample from wiki.nginx.org, http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFastCGIOnWindows, below works for me.
location ~ \.php$ { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9999; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME D:/www/public/$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; }
Configure for Zend Framework
-f and !-f are used for checking whether file exists.
error_page 404 /index.php; if (!-f $request_filename) { rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last; break; }
3. batch script to start and stop nginx + php-cgi
I’m using RunHiddenConsole to hide the prompt window and actually you also can use vbs to run nginx.
start-nginx.bat
@ECHO OFF ECHO Starting PHP FastCGI... C:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe C:\PHP5\php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9999 ECHO Starting nginx... C:\nginx\RunHiddenConsole.exe c:\nginx\nginx.exe
stop-nginx.bat
@ECHO OFF ECHO Stopping nginx... taskkill /F /IM nginx.exe ECHO Stopping php-cgi... taskkill /F /IM php-cgi.exe
but php-pfm doesn’t work on Windows unless you are using cygwin.
