MediaWiki on Nginx - Bigdinosaur Blog
blog.bigdinosaur.org/mediawiki-on-nginx
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
There are lots of MediaWiki-on-Nginx guides out there, but I didnt find anything approaching the completeness of the much more common MediaWiki-on-Apache guides. The configuration I settled on was a mix of things from around the web, including the MediaWiki site and the Nginx Wiki, and my own ideas, with an eye toward closing off access to as much of the internals as possible and pulling the main configuration components out of the web root.