502 Error With Flarum and Nginx

George-field

Hi everyone, I have been trying for the past couple of days to install flarum on a digital ocean ubuntu 18.04 droplet and am running into the same problems every time. I either get a 502 Error or a 403 Error, any help would be incredible, I have posted the nginx default file below as that is where I am putting my configuration.

The Below gives me a 502 Error, if I change the root /var/www/html/forum/public; to root /var/www/html/forum;
I get a 403.

server {
	listen 80 default_server;

	# SSL configuration
	#
	# listen 443 ssl default_server;
	# listen [::]:443 ssl default_server;
	#
	# Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic.
	# See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332
	#
	# Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration.
	# See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782
	#
	# Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package
	# Don't use them in a production server!
	#
	# include snippets/snakeoil.conf;

	root /var/www/html/forum/public;

	# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
	index index.html index.htm index.php;

	server_name _;
     

       	 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; }

    location ~* ^/(composer\.(json|lock)|config\.php|flarum|storage|vendor) {
        deny all;
        return 404;
    }

    location ~* \.html$ {
        expires -1;
    }
    

	# pass PHP scripts to FastCGI server
	#
	#location ~ \.php$ {
	#	include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
	#
	#	# With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
	#	fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
	#	# With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
	#	fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
	#}

	# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
	# concurs with nginx's one
	#
	#location ~ /\.ht {
	#	deny all;
	#}
}

clarkwinkelmann

George-field if you follow any guide, make sure it's for Flarum beta 8+

It's hard to tell what went really wrong, but I see multiple issues in that config file:

The following lines are for beta 7 only, they must be removed:

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

The FPM config is commented out, so PHP most likely doesn't run

The FPM config references PHP 7.0, which is not supported. Make sure you installed PHP 7.1 or later.

The root should include /public at the end.

Maybe there's some file permission issues as well.