How to Migrate from Apache to Nginx?

WaqarKhan

In case of already installed flarum, how can I migrate from apache to Nginx?

jordanjay29

WaqarKhan Flarum is pretty webserver agnostic, you'd simply want to make sure the provided .htaccess file lives in the same place your .nginx file does. That's about it, unless the php username changes (some OSes use names like apache and nginx instead of www-data, so check the ownership of your files), you shouldn't have to make changes to your Flarum files unless errors occur while navigating to your site. Those are usually resolvable, however, and they won't affect Flarum's files/data.

WaqarKhan

jordanjay29 No url or link is working except homepage

jordanjay29

WaqarKhan Can you share the URL of your Flarum install? And run php flarum info in the Flarum root folder, and paste the output here?

WaqarKhan

jordanjay29
naatiakalam.com

jordanjay29

WaqarKhan Run php flarum cache:clear and try again.

Neither is better for Flarum, as I said, Flarum is webserver agnostic. It doesn't care what it runs on. What is better between the two depends on you and your comfort level, Apache is generally easier to work with objectively though.

WaqarKhan

Which one is better for flarum? Apache or Nginx?

WaqarKhan

jordanjay29
Nothing changed.
.htaccess file is in public folder while .nginx file is in root folder. Are these at their correct places?

jordanjay29

WaqarKhan Where is your index.php? In public or outside?

WaqarKhan

jordanjay29
in public folder

jordanjay29

WaqarKhan Have you followed the Apache instructions here? https://flarum.org/docs/install.html#url-rewriting

WaqarKhan

Not understood the nginx setting.
Hence reverting back to apache.

Thanks

jordanjay29

WaqarKhan It looks like you have Flarum installed to work at https://naatiakalam.com but your site is really located at https://naatiakalam.com/public. This isn't an Apache/Nginx issue, it's really just a Flarum configuration issue. Read the Customizing Paths doc for how to resolve this issue.

clarkwinkelmann

The placement of the Flarum nginx file isn't important, as you have to include it from the nginx config by specifying its path.