Wrong path for CSS/JS | Nginx redirect issue

gschwepp

Hi,

it is me again. My flarum site should run now, but it does not load the assets folder correctly.

In my setup I have a nginx-proxy listening on domain.com and location /forum is passed via proxy_pass to my container running flarum with nginx, php71, mysql56.

So domain.com/forum is should be for the container /. Therefor I adjusted the rewrite rules:

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

The page does load, and I see a blank page with an title. If i try to open the forum-xyz.css in my browser I get an 404.

In my container I get following error:
2018/04/01 10:23:46 [error] 69999#100212: *7 open() "/usr/local/www/flarum/forum/assets/forum-en-df77f08d.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 10.1.1.10, server: 10.1.1.17, request: "GET /forum/assets/forum-en-df77f08d.js HTTP/1.0", host: "10.1.1.17", referrer: "https://domain.com/forum/"

/user/local/www/flarum is the root directory and not /usr/local/www/flarum/forum. So I need to redirect the request for CSS.

What would be the best way to solve this?

Thanks for your help. Cheers

Glombersik

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/3231-nginx-sample-configuration-ssl
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https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1623-obtain-an-ssl-certificate-and-run-your-forum-with-https-for-free

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gschwepp

Thanks for the link. I have already read it. However I do not see how this would apply to my problem as I set the redirects correctly (afaik).

Btw. in my config.php the url is: "'https://domain.com/forum"
Ownership is correct (www:www).
Folder permissions are set correctly.

Before writing I read everything I could find on google/this forum.
Most of the threads do not apply to my problem, because they are:
a. Not working with an reverse proxy.
b. If they work with an reverse proxy they do not have the forum in an subfolder.

As shown above in the server cannot find /usr/local/www/flarum/forum/ because it is not existing. My root folder is /user/local/www/flarum/. As far as I can tell the error only affects CSS/JS files (probably other static files as well).
I think I could modify this modify to work around this issue:

 location ~* \.(css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
                expires 1M;
                add_header Pragma public;
                add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        }

But I want a proper way to solve this and not an quick and dirty workaround. I am even unsure where the additional /forum in the request comes from.

Cheers

gschwepp

Update: I just changed the location in my proxies config from /forum to /. And adjusted the configuration of my flarum container (rewrites and config.php) and it is just working without any problems.

So it is either an hiccup in my nginx setup, because I am not familiar with php-fpm and this specific rewriting. (Other non php services are just running fine.)
Or there is something weird going on, adding some prefix to the request or so...

gschwepp

Small update, I just got something wrong in the redirects. They are currently configured as follows:

location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; }
location /api { try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php?$query_string; }
location /admin { try_files $uri $uri/ /admin.php?$query_string; }

However this does not work with a revese-proxy and subfolder setup.

Could someone confirm that the additional /forum/ is not some kind of flarum effect?

gschwepp

Ok. I just got it working with a couple of soultions.

Use nginx rewrite to remove the duplicate /forum/ from the get request.
Create a subfolder forum inside the your nginx root directory and move everything over. Adjust the default rewrite rules in your nginx configuration.

Both solutions work. I decided to use the 2nd in my setup. I changed my setup that this is actually usefull and the /root/ folder does server some static pages.

This can be marked as solved. Thanks.

Cheers