MoinMoin + Nginx

Recently I’ve done quite a lot times of setting up LNMP(Linux + Nginx + Mysql + PHP). During this I notice there’s not much resource on the internet talking about the installation of MoinMoin on Nginx, so here’s what I’ve done to make it run, hope will help. Actually those are collected from other places from internet,

1. Grab the latest version of spawn-fcgi from http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/spawn-fcgi/news and install it.

   tar zxf spawn-fcgi-1.6.3.tar.gz
   cd spawn-fcgi-1.6.3
   ./configure && make && make install
   

2. Create a script under /etc/init.d/, name it anything you like such as moin-fcgi

   #!/bin/sh
   
   NAME="moin"
   DIR="/srv/share/moin/server"
   FCGIAPP="./moin.fcgi"
   PREFIX="/usr/local"
   
   PORTS="1080"
   
   start_on_port () {
       # Start moin instance on port, leaving pid file
       port=$1
   
       cd "${DIR}" && sudo -u www "${PREFIX}/bin/spawn-fcgi" \
           -f "${FCGIAPP}" \
           -p $port \
           -P "${NAME}-${port}.pid" \
           > /dev/null
   }
   
   kill_on_port () {
       # Try to kill process using pid in pid file, then remove the pid file
       pidFile="${DIR}/${NAME}-$1.pid"
       kill `cat "$pidFile"` && rm -f "$pidFile" > /dev/null
   }
   
   start () {
       for port in $PORTS; do start_on_port $port; done
   }
   
   stop () {
       for port in $PORTS; do kill_on_port $port; done
   }
   
   case "$1" in
   start)
       # XXX starting twice will break pid files (bug in spawn-fcgi)
       start && echo -n " $NAME"
           ;;
   stop)
           stop && echo -n " $NAME"
           ;;
   restart)
       stop
       start && echo -n " $NAME"
           ;;
   *)
           echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop|restart}" >&2
           ;;
   esac
   exit 0
   

3. Assume we’d like to bind MoinMoin under sub-folder /wiki, modify nginx.conf like this:

   rewrite ^/wiki$ /wiki/;
   location /wiki {
     include fastcgi_params;
     if ($fastcgi_script_name ~ ^/wiki(.*)) {
       set $path_info $1;
     }
     fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /wiki;
     fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
   
     if (!-f $request_filename) {
       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:1080;
     }
   }
   

   From John Leach

That’s it. For how to install MoinMoin, please check the manual on official website.