If you need to pass some environment variables to your application from Nginx, you’ll need to specify them in the config file like so.
fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV staging;
So for example a more full config for a Zend Framework application
server {
listen 443 default ssl;
listen 80 default;
ssl_certificate /etc/pki/tls/certs/cert.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/pki/tls/private/cert.key;
keepalive_timeout 70;
root /var/www/mysite/public
access_log /var/log/nginx/mysite.access.log main;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# set a nice expire for assets
location ~* "^.+\.(jpe?g|gif|css|png|js|ico|pdf|zip|tar|t?gz|mp3|wav|swf)$" {
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control public;
}
location ~* \.php {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV staging;
}
}
There you have it. Go and do likewise.