Hello,

I am trying to move from apache2 to nginx and I have several questions that still puzzels me.

1. I have installed 1.0.14 version and I can't seem to find sites-available and sites-enabled folders. Is there a problem with my installation ? I first had installed 0.8.xxx version. I removed that and installed 1.0.14. Should that be a reason for missing folders ?

2. Where should I place rewrite rules ? I put them directly under server. Is this correct ?

3. My site index was specified in apache like this:

DirectoryIndex some_page.php?option=all

How can I do that with nginx ?

Thanks all.

1. What os do you have ? if you had a sites-available, that sounds debian/ubuntu to me. After an upgrade they are still there. Did you compile this or installed the package?
2. http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRewriteModule answers that ...
3. If I understand correctly you want you want to show files from a folder, that can be done using a location directive + autoindex:

location ~ ^some_page.php\?option=all {
autoindex on;
}

Most of this can easily be found in the wiki...

Sites-available and sites-enabled are 2 dir's You can create beneath your nginx.conf dir or elsewhere - but they are not nescecary for Your nginx to run but a way to create conf files per server (virtuel server in Apache language) so You include the conf file from sites-enabled into nginx.conf (same as including conf files in Apache) thats all (conf files in sites-enabled will be linked to conf files in sites-available - a bit tricky for minor systems though)

E.G in the nginx.conf You have a line : include /xxx/xxx/xxx/sites-enabled/*.conf

hope it helps