Sample Nginx Configuration for Magento 1

23rd May 2018

Below you can view sample Nginx configuration for Magento 1 applications.

server {   
    listen 80 reuseport;
    #listen 443 http2 ssl reuseport;
    server_name your-magento1-domain.com;;
    root /var/www/html;
    
    location = /js/index.php/x.js {
       rewrite ^(.*\.php)/ $1 last;
    }

    location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
    }
       
    location ~ /(app|var|downloader|includes|pkginfo)/ {
       deny all;
    }
        

    location ~ rss/(order|catalog) { deny all; }
    location ~ ^/([^/])+\.(sh|pl|py|lua|inc|swp|phar|php_|log|ini|md|sql|conf|yml|zip|tar|.+gz)$ { deny all; }
    location ~ /\.(svn|git|hg|htpasswd|bash|ssh) { deny all; }
    location ~ /(tmp|dev/tests/|errors/local.xml|cron\.php) { deny all; }
    location ~* /(lib|media|shell|skin)/.*\.php$ { deny all; }
    
    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
       expires max;
       log_not_found off;
       access_log off;
       add_header ETag "";
    }
      
    location ~* \.(swf|eot|ttf|otf|woff|woff2)$ {
	expires max;
	log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
	add_header ETag "";
	add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "example.com, cdn.example.com";
	add_header Cache-Control "public"
    }

    location @rewrite {
       rewrite / /index.php;
    }
  
    location ~ \.php$ {
       try_files $uri =404;
       fastcgi_pass            127.0.0.1:${MAGE_ROUTE};
       fastcgi_index           index.php;
       include                 fastcgi_params;
       fastcgi_keep_conn       on;
       #fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE $mage_code;
       #fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE $mage_type;
   }
}

Note: This article is based on Magento Community/Open Source version 1.9.