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This assumes you have a working Joomla installation and have located the files at /var/www/html/. If you need an installation guide, try the official documentation available at https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:Installing_Joomla.
To use Joomla with NGINX, we need a simple NGINX configuration file. This is a very basic PHP-FPM configuration with no changes required.
nano /etc/nginx/conf.d/joomla.conf
Then copy and paste the content below into the file and save.
server {
listen 80;
server_name joomla.local;
access_log /var/log/nginx/joomla.access.log combined;
index index.php;
root /var/www/html/;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ^~ /cache/ {
deny all;
}
}
Reload NGINX to read the new configuration file.
sudo service nginx reload