Syntax: fastcgi_pass address; Default: — Context: location, if in location Sets the address of a FastCGI server. The address can be specified as a domain name or IP address, and a port: fastcgi_pass localhost:9000; or as a UNIX-domain socket path: fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/fastcgi.socket; If a domain name resolves to several addresses, all of them will be used in a round-robin fashion. In addition, an address can be specified as a server group.

Syntax: fastcgi_param parameter value [if_not_empty]; Default: — Context: http, server, location Sets a parameter that should be passed to the FastCGI server. The value can contain text, variables, and their combination. These directives are inherited from the previous level if and only if there are no fastcgi_param directives defined on the current level. The following example shows the minimum required settings for PHP: fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/www/scripts

Syntax: fastcgi_no_cache string ...; Default: — Context: http, server, location Defines conditions under which the response will not be saved to a cache. If at least one value of the string parameters is not empty and is not equal to “0” then the response will not be saved: fastcgi_no_cache $cookie_nocache $arg_nocache$arg_comment; fastcgi_no_cache $http_pragma $http_authorization; Can be used along with the fastcgi_cache_bypass directive.

Syntax: fastcgi_next_upstream_tries number; Default: fastcgi_next_upstream_tries 0; Context: http, server, location This directive appeared in version 1.7.5. Limits the number of possible tries for passing a request to the next server. The 0 value turns off this limitation.

Syntax: fastcgi_next_upstream_timeout time; Default: fastcgi_next_upstream_timeout 0; Context: http, server, location This directive appeared in version 1.7.5. Limits the time during which a request can be passed to the next server. The 0 value turns off this limitation.

Syntax: fastcgi_next_upstream error | timeout | invalid_header | http_500 | http_503 | http_403 | http_404 | non_idempotent | off ...; Default: fastcgi_next_upstream error timeout; Context: http, server, location Specifies in which cases a request should be passed to the next server: error an error occurred while establishing a connection with the server, passing a request to it, or reading the response header; timeout a timeout has occurre

Syntax: fastcgi_max_temp_file_size size; Default: fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 1024m; Context: http, server, location When buffering of responses from the FastCGI server is enabled, and the whole response does not fit into the buffers set by the fastcgi_buffer_size and fastcgi_buffers directives, a part of the response can be saved to a temporary file. This directive sets the maximum size of the temporary file. The size of data written to the temporary file at a time is set by the fa

Syntax: fastcgi_limit_rate rate; Default: fastcgi_limit_rate 0; Context: http, server, location This directive appeared in version 1.7.7. Limits the speed of reading the response from the FastCGI server. The rate is specified in bytes per second. The zero value disables rate limiting. The limit is set per a request, and so if nginx simultaneously opens two connections to the FastCFI server, the overall rate will be twice as much as the specified limit. The limitation works only if

Syntax: fastcgi_keep_conn on | off; Default: fastcgi_keep_conn off; Context: http, server, location This directive appeared in version 1.1.4. By default, a FastCGI server will close a connection right after sending the response. However, when this directive is set to the value on, nginx will instruct a FastCGI server to keep connections open. This is necessary, in particular, for keepalive connections to FastCGI servers to function.

Syntax: fastcgi_intercept_errors on | off; Default: fastcgi_intercept_errors off; Context: http, server, location Determines whether FastCGI server responses with codes greater than or equal to 300 should be passed to a client or be intercepted and redirected to nginx for processing with the error_page directive.