How to do it...

To use Joomla with NGINX, we need a simple NGINX configuration file. This is a very basic PHP-FPM configuration with no changes required:

server { 
    listen       80; 
    server_name  joomla.nginxcookbook.com; 
 
    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/php7.0-fpm.sock; 
        fastcgi_index index.php; 
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME 
         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; 
        include fastcgi_params; 
    } 
 
    location ^~ /cache/ { 
        deny all; 
    } 
} 

To enable clean URLs, you also need to ensure that URL rewriting is enabled: