{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/blog/parsing-markdown-files-nginx","result":{"data":{"allGhostPost":{"edges":[{"node":{"title":"Parsing Markdown Files in Nginx","html":"<p>This is a really easy trick I found out to parse markdown files in Nginx.</p>\n<p>Example:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://kamalnasser.net/dump/markdown.md\">http://kamalnasser.net/dump/markdown.md</a></li>\n<li>Source: <a href=\"http://kamalnasser.net/dump/markdown.md/raw\">http://kamalnasser.net/dump/markdown.md/raw</a></li>\n</ul>\n<p>The setup depends on PHP, which is what actually parses the markdown file and outputs the HTML.<br>\nThe whole thing is made out of two files:</p>\n<!-- more -->\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/\">markdown.php</a> -- Markdown Parser</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://kamalnasser.net/dump/md.phps\">md.php</a> -- Nginx Handler</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Once you get these two files:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>Put them in a directory that has a recursive o+x (all its parents have o+x)</li>\n<li>Chown the files to you:you</li>\n<li>Chmod the files 664</li>\n</ol>\n<p>All that is left now is the Nginx configuration:</p>\n<pre><code class=\"language-nginx\">location ~ \\.md$ {\n    try_files $uri =404;\n    fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;\n    fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_ROOT    $document_root;\n    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME      $uri;\n    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/md.php;\n    include fastcgi_params;\n}\n\nlocation ~ ^(.*)\\.md/raw$ {\n    try_files $1.md =404;\n}\n</code></pre>\n<p>And you are done! Rehash Nginx and voila!</p>\n","published_at":"2012-11-02T14:18:00.000+02:00","slug":"parsing-markdown-files-nginx","tags":[],"plaintext":"This is a really easy trick I found out to parse markdown files in Nginx.\n\nExample:\n\n * http://kamalnasser.net/dump/markdown.md\n * Source: http://kamalnasser.net/dump/markdown.md/raw\n\nThe setup depends on PHP, which is what actually parses the markdown file and\noutputs the HTML.\nThe whole thing is made out of two files:\n\n * markdown.php [http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/]  -- Markdown Parser\n * md.php [http://kamalnasser.net/dump/md.phps]  -- Nginx Handler\n\nOnce you get these two files:\n\n 1. Put them in a directory that has a recursive o+x (all its parents have o+x)\n 2. Chown the files to you:you\n 3. Chmod the files 664\n\nAll that is left now is the Nginx configuration:\n\nlocation ~ \\.md$ {\n    try_files $uri =404;\n    fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;\n    fastcgi_param   DOCUMENT_ROOT    $document_root;\n    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_NAME      $uri;\n    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME  /path/to/md.php;\n    include fastcgi_params;\n}\n\nlocation ~ ^(.*)\\.md/raw$ {\n    try_files $1.md =404;\n}\n\n\nAnd you are done! Rehash Nginx and voila!","meta_description":null}}]}},"pageContext":{"slug":"parsing-markdown-files-nginx","prev":null,"next":"duplicity-amazon-s3-backups"}},"staticQueryHashes":["3649515864"]}