Nginx configuration 403 Forbidden

bertaveira

I and migrating server and trying to install flarum on the new server. I have installed flarum using composer on /var/www/flarum since I might use this server for other small projects.

I have set up a "flarum.conf" file in the sites-available folder and linked it to the sites-enabled folder as you would normally do. The problem is that it is giving me a 403 Forbidden error when I access the website (urbextest2.tk testing domain). Now the strange part is that when I access urbextest2.tk/flarum it download the flarum file in the main flarum/ folder. So I guess the routing is working but it is not capturing the index.

This is the flarum.conf (in sites-available/ folder):

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/flarum;
index index.php;
server_name urbextest2.tk;

include /var/www/flarum/.nginx.conf;
}

I have tried a ton of different nginx files I found online and none seem to work. I have also changed the owner of files and premissions with these commands but it still gets the error.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/flarum/ sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/flarum/

I have been trying to fix it for over 2 days and I am out of ideas. Is there anyone with more expertise in server related problems that can help me?

bertaveira

I was able to make the installation page apear but I am not sure if the way I did is advisable.

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/flarum/public;
index index.php;
server_name urbextest2.tk;

location _* .php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}

#include /var/www/flarum/.nginx.conf;
}

Can anyone comment on how it is setup. Is it ok to be like this or what should I change? I am still configuring the flarum database and all that

bertaveira

Now I can see the setup screen but it gets this error when I fill it up and click install...

error

bertaveira

Sorry for the spam but I have been working non stop and figured it out.

This is how I configured the nginx for beta 8. I want multiple sites on the same server so I created a flarum.conf in the sites-available/ directory (located inside the nginx directory... in my case /etc/nginx/sites-available).
The flarum.conf file looks like this:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    root /var/www/flarum;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;

   #add php suport (make sure you have php-fpm installed for it to work)
   location ~* \.php$ {
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
      include fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
    }

    include /var/www/flarum/.nginx.conf;
}

in my case I had installed the flarum inside the /var/www/flarum but you can change that (the public folder with the index.ptp is inside the /var/www/flarum/public i didn't touch it).

Then you have to link it to the sites-enabled/ folder with this command:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/flarum.conf /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

and then refresh nginx:

sudo service nginx restart

After that it should work 🙂