Part of: http://marcelog.github.io/articles/configure_nginx_php_5.3_5.2_fastcgi.html NGINX configuration file to support different (multiple) PHP versions in different virtual hosts by using FastCGI

nginx.conf

# Useful to debug rewrite rules and other stuff  
error_log  logs/error.log  notice;  
  
http {  
    # Debug rewrite rules  
    rewrite_log  on;  
}  
  
server {  
        listen          80;  
        server_name     php53;  
        root            /www/php53;  
        index           index.php;  
        fastcgi_index   index.php;  
  
        location / {  
            index index.php;  
        }  
  
        location ~ \.htaccess {  
            deny all;  
        }  
  
        # These lines will allow to redirect any request that does not match  
        # an existant file to a front controller (zf, yii, symfony, etc)  
        error_page  404 = /index.php;  
        if (!-e $request_filename) {  
            rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;  
        }  
  
        location ~ \.php {  
                # Workaround PHP vulnerability:  
                # http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,88845,page=3  
                try_files $uri =404;  
                # Alternatively you can set  
                # cgi.fix_pathinfo = false  
                # in php.ini  
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;  
                keepalive_timeout 0;  
                fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;  
                fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9001;  
        }  
}  
server {  
        listen          80;  
        server_name     php52;  
        root            /www/php52;  
        index           index.php;  
        fastcgi_index   index.php;  
  
        location / {  
            index index.php;  
        }  
  
        location ~ \.htaccess {  
            deny all;  
        }  
  
        # These lines will allow to redirect any request that does not match  
        # an existant file to a front controller (zf, yii, symfony, etc)  
        error_page  404 = /index.php;  
        if (!-e $request_filename) {  
            rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;  
        }  
  
        location ~ \.php {  
                # Workaround PHP vulnerability:  
                # http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,88845,page=3  
                try_files $uri =404;  
                # Alternatively you can set  
                # cgi.fix_pathinfo = false  
                # in php.ini  
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;  
                keepalive_timeout 0;  
                fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;  
                fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;  
        }  
}