how to configure nginx with magento on ubuntu localhost - magento

Question

i need to install magento 1.8 and 1.9 on ubuntu on nginx server.
i created configuration but is not working fine.
i need to create one global configuration files for magento 1.8, magento 1.9
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
allow ::1;
deny all;
}
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
# With php5-fpm:
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

Answer 1

You state in the comments that you get a 403 forbidden message. There's a number of things that could be causing this. You will find more information on this error by checking the nginx error logs which are by default kept in /var/log/nginx/*.log
I'd strongly recommend checking the error logs for further information as it will speed up the process of fixing the issue.
1. Incorrect web root
An obvious one but just make sure you have the correct web root set
$ ls /usr/share/nginx/html
2. Directory and File Permissions
Check your web user (normally www-data on Ubuntu/Debian) is allowed permissions to access the files in the web directory aswerll as the directory itself. Check the permissions by running on terminal:
$ ls -l /usr/share/nginx/html
Make sure the files have the right permissions set and aren't, for example, set to root ownership.
Magento has instructions on resetting the file permissions for your Magento install here. In summary run the following on the terminal:
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chmod 550 pear
chmod 550 mage #for magento 1.5+