CakePHP and Nginx configuration - cakephp

Question

So I've been tasked with creating a site using CakePHP, so I downloaded the latest 2.2.3, and I need to configure it on my local nginx 1.2.4 server.
I have the server_block working, but for some reason I can't load any css. The test home page also reports that url rewriting isn't working properly.
I've been reading a number of articles and questions, but none seem to be able to solve the issue. So far I've referenced,
Issue with Cakephp application running on nginx 1.0.8 + subdirectory
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/advanced-installation.html#pretty-urls-on-nginx
http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2007/09/14/configuring-cakephp-to-work-with-nginx/
http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard/2009/01/25/cakephp-nginx-configuration-update/
http://kvz.io/blog/2010/02/24/cakephp-and-nginx/
My css links look like this,
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Users/david/Sites/example.com/css/cake.generic.css" />
I need to figure out why Nginx isn't letting my CSS load. So far I can only find out that it's appending the $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] to all my links which obviously means my css will be incorrectly linked. I need to find out who to stop cakephp from picking up this extra information. Links are being passed into the HtmlHelper as follows string '/Users/david/Sites/example.com//Users/david/Sites/example.com/css/cake.generic.css' (length=86)
Currently my nginx config server block looks like the following.
server {
server_name example.com;
root /Users/david/Sites/example.com/app/webroot/;
access_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log;
error_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;
listen 80;
rewrite_log on;
# rewrite rules for cakephp
location / {
index index.php index.html;
# If the file exists as a static file serve it
# directly without running all
# the other rewite tests on it
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (!-f $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
break;
}
}
location ~* \favicon.ico$ {
expires 6m;
}
location ~ ^/img/ {
expires 7d;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME example.com;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
FastCGIParams
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 SCRIPT_NAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$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;
# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;

Answer 1

So I've managed to figure out what the issue was. It turns out that it's a variable in core.php
If you change Configure::write('App.baseUrl', env('SCRIPT_NAME')); to be Configure::write('App.baseUrl', '/'); then it seems to all work and will route correctly to you css files.
My nginx config looks like the following.
server {
listen 127.0.0.1:80;
server_name example.com.ukwm157;
root /Users/david/Sites/example.com/app/webroot;
index index.php index.html;
log_not_found off;
charset utf-8;
access_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log main;
error_log /usr/local/var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;
location / {
index index.php index.html index.htm;
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-d $request_filename) {
break;
}
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}
# Static files.
# Set expire headers, Turn off access log
location ~* \favicon.ico$ {
access_log off;
expires 1d;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
location ~ ^/(img|cjs|ccss)/ {
access_log off;
expires 7d;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
# Deny access to .htaccess files,
# git & svn repositories, etc
location ~ /(\.ht|\.git|\.svn) {
deny all;
}
location ~ .php?$ {
#if (!-e $document_root$document_uri){return 404;}
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}

Answer 2

Following configuration works for me with Cake 2.x
server {
listen 80;
server_name myprojecy.xyz;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
location / {
root /var/www/html/project-forlder/app/webroot;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-d $request_filename) {
break;
}
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}
location ~ .*\.php[345]?$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/var/www/html/project-forlder/app/webroot$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

Answer 3

I think the problem is you’re using a file path and not a URL.