luci on nginx

Is it possible to make luci work on nginx? luci.on.nginx page is missing on OpenWRT website, and a few configs I have found don’t work (OpenWRT 14.07) and return 404 Not Found for 192.168.1.1/cgi-bin/luci

Configs I have tried:

    location /cgi-bin/luci {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/cgi-bin/luci)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/luafcgid.sock;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/lua/luci/sgi/fcgi.lua;
        include       fastcgi_params;
        client_max_body_size 16M;
    }

     location /cgi-bin/luci {                                             
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/cgi-bin/luci)(/.+)$;                  
            fastcgi_pass  unix:/tmp/fcgi-cgi.sock;                           
            fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;                      
            set $script_name '/cgi-bin/luci';                                
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$script_name;
            include fastcgi_params;                                    
            add_header Cache-Control no-store;
    }

[danielfdickinson]

I’d suggest you prefer using uhttpd on a different port than nginx and keep the admin UI separate from you nginx instance. There is no advantage to nginx as your UI server.

[Pietia10]

I think we really need to set luci as default for serving luci as uhttpd take like 5-10 seconds to load any page(100% CPU in top for just one user!), nginx is lightweight and takes minimal resources cpu/ram/disk . I think first we need to solve this https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/2408 so nginx can serve old plain cgi scripts.