Vanilla on Nginx

I'm trying to install Vanilla 2 on Nginx but am facing 404 Page not found error. After some searching I figured it is url rewrite error. So, tried to translate Apache's rewrite rule:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]

as:
if (!-e $request_filename
{
rewrite ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 last;
}

But obviously I'm doing something wrong.

Can you help me, please.

Mark

Kamran eventually figured out this nginx problem and emailed it to me:

Vanilla installation bug on Nginx was bugging me.... so tonight I spent sometime to figure out what was wrong. As it appeared, Nginx doesn't pass path_info variable to FastCGI, which is required to support vanilla's URL format.

Once, I figured out the issue, fix was pretty simple i.e. directly point SCRIPT_FILE variable to index.php, instead of traditional /. So, in most basic format, here is how the config file should look like:

server {

           listen   80;
           server_name sub.domain.com;

           access_log /home/name/public_html/sub.domain.com/logs/access.log;
           error_log /home/name/public_html/sub.domain.com/logs/error.log;

           location  /index.php/ {

           fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
           fastcgi_index index.php;
           include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
           fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/name/public_html/sub.domain.com/public$fastcgi_script_name;
           }


           location / {

                       root   /home/name/public_html/sub.domain.com/public;
                       index  index.php;

                       if (-f $request_filename) {
                         break;
                       }

                       if (-d $request_filename) {
                         break;
                       }

                       rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php$1 last;
                       error_page  404  = /index.php;
               }
}

Hope that will be helpful for you in the future. Now I've to figure out how to enable pretty links. I believe there is a setting in config-default.php, correct?

mykeus

This configuration did not work for me. So I did some more research into this and found something better and more targetted towards the path_info fcgi fix. Keep in mind the previous configure might be for Lighttpd spawn-fcgi. I'm currently using nginx with php5-cgi from the ubuntu repos.

server {
	listen 80;
	server_name sub.domain.com;

	access_log /home/name/sub.domain.com/logs/access.log;
	error_log /home/name/sub.domain.com/logs/error.log;

    location / {
            root /home/name/sub.domain.com/public;
            index index.php;

            if (-f $request_filename) {
            	break;
            }

            if (-d $request_filename) {
            	break;
           	}

            rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php$1 last;
            error_page  404  = /index.php;
    }
    
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass	127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index	index.php;
        fastcgi_param	SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/name/sub.domain.com/public$fastcgi_script_name;
        include			/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

	#
	# path_info fix
	#

    location ~ \.php($|/) {

        set $script     $uri;
        set $path_info  "";

        if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") {
            set $script     $1;
            set $path_info  $2;
        }

        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    /home/name/sub.domain.com/public$script;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $script;
        fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $path_info;

        fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
        fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
        fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
        fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;
        fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
        fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
        fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;

        fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx;

        fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
        fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
        fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

    }
}

This is direct from my configuration. The previous was giving me incomplete url errors server-side. Tried to take a look at the rewrite rules. Everything checked out other than /index.php/ location. This method was causing failure in my setup on my cloud configuration.

mykeus

I will possibly look into getting everything working correctly under Cherokee also.

DeadlyCreampuff

None of these setups seem to work for a Vanilla2 setup under a sub directory. It seems like the cgi.fix_pathinfo setting in php.ini affects this quite abit.

houseofmore

This is half working for me under a sub-directory. But all of my links look like:

/forum/index.php/garden/gardensetup

How do I get rid of /index.php/ on everything?

eleith

@houseofmore in your config.php, adjust the following to be True: $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

eleith

here is a less verbose nginx site conf i've got working for me:

server {
   listen   80;
   server_name  sub.domain.com;

   root        /path/to/garden;
   index       index.php index.html;                                                                                       

   location / {                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
      if (-f $request_filename) {                                                                                            
         break;                                                                                                              
      }
      if (-d $request_filename) {                                                                                            
         break;                                                                                                              
      }                                                                                                                      
      rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php$1 last;                                                                                      
   }         

   location ~ \.php($|/) {                                                                                                   
      fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      #fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include        /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

      set $script     $uri;
      set $path_info  "";

      if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") {
          set $script     $1;
          set $path_info  $2;
      }

      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$script;
      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $script;
      fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $path_info;
   }
}

looklively

Yep .. I can confirm that the above works for me.
Thanks, people!

houseofmore

I was unable to get rewrites working with nginx with vanilla outside of the forum root. I gave up on trying to do it all in nginx, and added this to the top of the index.php in vanilla.


$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = preg_replace('|^/forum|','', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);


/forum being my root. In nginx, all I have is:


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


Seems to work fine: http://www.checkfront.com/forum/

Cheers,
-J

becool

Hi there!

I must be a total newbie at this. But Im getting the same error "No Input file Specified"

- I cant find the config.php file. There seems to not be a config.php file in Vanilla 2 RC1. But I do see a config-default.php in the config folder.

2. I do not know if all these fixes listed above applies to me since I have godaddy deluxe hosting which is linux. Anyone know where kind this is?

3. Ive actually cmodded my whole directories and subfolders/files with 777. Yes I know this is very insecure, but I wanted to see if this would solve the problem and thats a Negative.

Id really appreciate some help for the php not inclined person. Id like a step by step guide on how to do this just like a little child if possible.

Thanks for all you do!

luc

1. config.php is created during setup.

becool

Ehhh? Ive never even got to setup. Sorry. Thanks for the quick answer!

However, When i point my browser to the install folder, in this case "Forum", I get the error "No input File Specified"

Further details is, I point it to the folder like this: http://forum.xxxxxxxx.com/forum
and I get this: www.forum.xxxxxxx.com/forum/index.php/dashboard/setup

Again any help would be appreciated.

-Tim

Tim

Can you show me your config file, becool?

shadowhand

None of these configurations work properly with rewriting routes. I currently have my configuration as http://gist.github.com/564341 Unfortunately, all of my Vanilla 1.x routes have stopped working, so all Google search results are f'ed.

brujah

Tried everything above, but having a little trouble with nginx and rewriteurls.

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


location ~ .php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
}

path info is empty
if I add: fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $request_uri;
then path info is /forums/post/discussion

every page is the index page

brujah

I'm trying to debug this. I don't know what the server values should be. I have an installation domain.com/forums/, and using rewrite urls = true.

I'm using this url in the browser to test each change, until I see something that looks right. domain.com/forums/post/discussion

_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"] no value
_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"] /forums/post/discussion
_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"] /var/www/domain.com/forums/index.php
_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] /forums/post/discussion
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_URI"] /forums/post/discussion
_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] /var/www/domain.com
_SERVER["PATH_INFO"] no value
_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATED"] /var/www/domain.com
_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] /forums/post/discussion

If I visit /forums/post/discussion in the browser, I'm currently seeing the default front page, but the paths to the css, js, etc.. are all incorrect and looking for the paths to these files from the document root instead of from /forums where my install is.

I hope this helps a bit more in diagnosing my issue.

brujah

I have this working for me, for now with the following:


location /forums {
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/forums(.+)$ /forums/index.php?p=$1 last;
}
}


The server variables are:
script_filename => /var/www/domain.com/forums/index.php
script_name => /forums/index.php
query_string => p=/post/discussion
request_uri => /forums/post/discussion
path_info =>
path_translated => /var/www/domain.com
php_self => /forums/index.php

swook

Just wanted to thank everyone for their tips and also wanted to inform you all of a solution which actually allows for 'search', post deletions, flagging and others to work.
Previously with /index.php?p=$uri; one could not get http://domain.tld/search?Search=abc to work due to args not being proxied.

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

For forums which are in non-root directories, the following should work:

location /forum/ {
    try_files /forum$uri /forum$uri/ /forum/index.php?p=$uri&$args;
}

Also, don't be an idiot like myself and set
$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;
in conf/config.php instead of wondering why pretty urls aren't working!

rlaskey

Here's the way I was able to tackle nginx w/ Vanilla:

location /forum {try_files $uri $uri/ @forum;}
location @forum {rewrite ^/forum(.+)$ /forum/index.php?p=$1 last;}

It's better not to use if statements ( http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil ), and the @ syntax provides for named locations, which is useful for having systems not in the root path, etc. Short and sweet.

luc

try_files is indeed the new thing to use, as far as I can tell reading new stuff on nginx. It wasn't there at first though, that's why they are still many examples with "if".

brujah

Getting emails like this. Is it coming from here?

[Penny Arcade] Todd commented on your bookmarked discussion.

Todd commented on your bookmarked discussion.

[Vanilla on Nginx]
Test @"Soviet Simplex"

---
Follow the link below to check it out:
http://vanilla.local/discussion/comment/140660#Comment_140660

luc

@Todd doing test :). I notified him.
He surely made a copy of the production database, then doing local test.

Todd

@brujah, sorry!!! I was testing and edited a random name.

dandv

I found that the nginx config setup for MyBB worked with Vanilla out of the box, no modifications required. nginx 1.0.4 on Ubuntu 11.

Neolo

dandv said: I found that the nginx config setup for MyBB worked with Vanilla out of the box, no modifications required. nginx 1.0.4 on Ubuntu 11.

It's not true. Doesn't work at all.

rlaskey said: Here's the way I was able to tackle nginx w/ Vanilla:location /forum {try_files $uri $uri/ @forum;} location @forum {rewrite ^/forum(.+)$ /forum/index.php?p=$1 last;}

It's better not to use if statements ( http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil ), and the @ syntax provides for named locations, which is useful for having systems not in the root path, etc. Short and sweet.

Links Logout, SignIn, all social connects are broken with 403 Forbidden.

Please give somebody really working NGINX rewrites for lasted version of Vanilla!!!

luc

@neolo: Did you do that ?:

swook said:

Also, don't be an idiot like myself and set

$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

in conf/config.php instead of wondering why pretty urls aren't working!

As this very forum (vf.org) is ran off nginx, it does work for sure :)

Tim

server {

   server_name "myforum.whatever.com";
   listen 80 default;

   root /var/www/myforum;
   index index.html index.htm index.php;

   ## PHP handler
   location ~* \.php$ {
      # turn off caching for php
      expires -1;

      # send to fastcgi
      include fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_pass    backend;
   }

   ## Default location
   location / {
      try_files $uri @site;
   }

   location @site {
      rewrite ^ /index.php?p=$uri&$args last;
   }

   ## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword & config
   location ~ "^/\.htaccess$" { deny all; }
   location ~* "/conf/.*$" { deny all; return 403; }
}

upstream backend {
   server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Tim

@Neolo

Neolo

Tim said: @Neolo

Thanks but this piece of config is not working for me:

location @site { rewrite ^ /index.php?p=$uri&$args last; }

I'm using embedded vanilla on lasted nginx+php-fpm. And seems to be I forced it to work fine with:

location /discuss { index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ @forum; } location @forum { rewrite ^/discuss(.+)$ /discuss/index.php?p=$1 last; }

Just last time I tried to use this code, I forgot to define an index page.

Thank you.