Migrate Kohana from Apache to NginX - .htaccess

Question

I'm migrating a Kohana App version 3.0.4 from Apache to NginX.
I'm getting troubles with the configuration .htaccess. On NginX work correctly only the internal URL's like:
http://myurlwithoutwww.net.ds/internalpage/anotherpage
but nether the homepage
http://myurlwithoutwww.net.ds/
nether this:
http://myurlwithoutwww.net.ds/index.php
works. The last two will simply display a blank screen.
this is the htaccess file from where I'm trying to migrate:
AddType text/x-component .htc
#Accept-Encoding: filter,deflate
# Turn on URL rewriting
RewriteEngine On
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
# Installation directory
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([a-z0-9\-]+).([a-z]{2,3})$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301]
# Protect hidden files from being viewed
<Files .*>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny From All
</Files>
# ExpiresActive On
# <FilesMatch \.(bmp|png|gif|jpe?g|html?|ico|doc|swf)$>
# ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 days"
# </FilesMatch>
FileETag none
# Protect application and system files from being viewed
RewriteRule ^async/?(.*)? index.php?dispatcher=async&$1 [NC,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^(?:_application|_modules|_system)\b index.php/$0 [L]
# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# Rewrite all other URLs to index.php/URL
RewriteRule .* index.php?kohana_uri=$0 [PT,L,QSA]
#RewriteRule .* index.php/$0 [PT]
And this my current Nginx configuration:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
#charset koi8-r;
#access_log logs/host.access.log main;
include /etc/nginx/aliases.conf;
root /var/www/webroot/ROOT;
index index.php;
location / {
expires off;
try_files $uri $uri/ #kohana;
}
# Prevent access to hidden files
location ~ /\. {
deny all;
}
location #kohana {
rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php$request_uri last;
}
location ~* \.php {
#location ~ /\. { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; }
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/webroot/ROOT/$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param KOHANA_ENV development;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/webroot/ROOT;
fastcgi_index index.php;
}

Answer 1

try below config, also check bootstrap init if it has 'index_file' => FALSE.
server {
listen 80;
server_name *.domain.com;
client_max_body_size 20M;
access_log /home/user/public_html/site/log/access.log;
error_log /home/user/public_html/site/log/error.log;
root /home/user/public_html/site/public/;
index index.php;
location / {
# don’t check $uri/, send to php for nice error message
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /index.php {
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
}
}

Answer 2

It is pretty old question, but maybe you will find it useful, the way I do:
location / {
index index.html index.htm index.php;
try_files $uri index.php;
}
location /kohana {
rewrite ^(.+)$ /kohana/index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/kohana/(.+)$ /kohana/index.php?kohana_uri=$1 last;
}
}
I just listed the main sections of default.conf.