DotKernel on Nginx

Due to the fact that the current buzzword is Nginx instead of Apache, we decided to test if Dotkernel is running out of the box on it. And how to configure Nginx :-)

Installed on a clean Centos 6.3 VPS : Nginx 1.4.1 , PHP 5.4.16 , PHP-FPM
Installed PHP modules: APC, GeoIP and such.
Installed PEAR and Zend Framework from http://code.google.com/p/zend/
Fine tune php.ini file: date, default charset, include path, etc
Create on a remote server a MySql database, allow permissions from Nginx server IP to connect to it.

Now the fine part: editing the Nginx config ( in our case /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf)

Set server name:
```
>server_name  nginx.dotkernel.net;
```
Set document root , in the location / area
```
>root   /var/www/html;
```
Equivalent of the main .htaccess file is
```
>try_files    $uri $uri/ /index.php;
```
This directive will send all requests to index.php file

Set the location for php directive

>    location ~ \.php$ {
           root           /var/www/html;
           fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
           fastcgi_index  index.php;
           fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www/html$fastcgi_script_name;
           fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV staging;
           include        fastcgi_params;
            }

In the lines above , you can change the value for APPLICATION_ENV into production or development

Protect configs folder from web access

>#protect folders
location ~ ^/configs/ {
        deny all;
 }

Export a DotKernel copy from SVN

>svn export --force  http://v1.dotkernel.net/svn/trunk/ /var/www/html

Edit application.ini to reflect the current settings and check if is protected http://nginx.dotkernel.net/configs/application.ini
And walla, site is running on Nginx http://nginx.dotkernel.net/ Admin login is disabled due to security reason.