Setup Nginx for phpMyDomo

For experts only: Using the Apache webserver is the recommended way to install phpMyDomo, but if you prefer to use Nginx instead of Apache, you might try the following unsupported method.

Install Required packages

As root:

apt-get update
apt-get install nginx php5-fpm php5 php5-curl

Edit php config

nano /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini

And change cgi.fix_pathinfo=0 to cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

Then restart php:

service php5-fpm restart

Make a Virtual Host for phpMyDomo

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/phpMyDomo

Add something like this (change according to your own needs)

# You should look at the following URL's in order to grasp a solid understanding
# of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
# http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart
# http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration
#
# Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
##

server {
    listen   8090; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
    #listen   [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    # Make site accessible from http://whatever/
    server_name _ default;

    location / {
        # RewriteRule ^(.*)controller\.php$ - [L]
        # RewriteRule ^(.*)static/ - [L]
        # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
        # RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
        # RewriteRule . controller.php [L]
                if ($request_filename ~* ^.*controller.php$ ) { 
                    break;
                }
                if ($request_filename ~* ^.*static/ ) { 
                    break;
                }
                if (!-e $request_filename) { 
                    rewrite ^.*$ /controller.php last; 
                    break;
                }
        # First attempt to serve request as file, then
        # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
        # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
        # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
        }
}

Enable it and restart Nginx:

ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/phpMyDomo /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/phpMyDomo
service nginx stop
service nginx start

Move the phpMydomo "www" directory as the web root directory

Now you have to move the content of the phpMyDomo/www/ directory to the directory that you defined as "root" in the VirtualHost configuration, ie:

mv /tmp/phpMyDomo/www/* /var/www/html/