If you need to pass some environment variables to your application from Nginx, you’ll need to specify them in the config file like so.

fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV staging;

So for example a more full config for a Zend Framework application

` server { listen 443 default ssl; listen 80 default; ssl_certificate /etc/pki/tls/certs/cert.crt; ssl_certificate_key /etc/pki/tls/private/cert.key;

keepalive_timeout 70;

root /var/www/mysite/public access_log /var/log/nginx/mysite.access.log main; index index.php;

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; }

set a nice expire for assets

location ~* ”^.+.(jpe?g|gif|css|png|js|ico|pdf|zip|tar|t?gz|mp3|wav|swf)$” { expires max; add_header Cache-Control public; }

location ~* .php { include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_read_timeout 600; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_param APPLICATION_ENV staging; }

} `

There you have it. Go and do likewise.