Setting up sub folder path at /forum

George-field

Hey Guys, I have had a read of docs and to be honest I am not really understanding it. So I have two apps on my server - One is a node app, the other is flarum, I want to run it on mydomain.com/forum with the node app on mydomain.com .

I have managed to get it working with the setup below:


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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }

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

My question is how do I move it so that all requests with /forum are then forwarded to the forum instead of just mydomain.com.

I am ruining Nginx

Thank you all in advance 🙂

fakruzaruret

This is my nginx but it can be configured more. Now it is complex.

server {
    listen      159.69.2.166:443 ssl http2;
    server_name www.domain.com;
    return 301 https://domain.com$request_uri;
    root        /home/user/web/domain.com/public_html;
    index       index.php index.html index.htm;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domains/domain.com.log combined;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domains/domain.com.bytes bytes;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/domains/domain.com.error.log error;

    #ssl         on;
    ssl_certificate      /home/user/conf/web/ssl.domain.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /home/user/conf/web/ssl.domain.com.key;


# don't send the nginx version number in error pages and Server header
server_tokens off;

}


server {
    listen      159.69.2.166:443 ssl http2;
    server_name domain.com;
    root        /home/user/web/domain.com/public_html;
    index       index.php index.html index.htm;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domains/domain.com.log combined;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domains/domain.com.bytes bytes;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/domains/domain.com.error.log error;

    #ssl         on;
    ssl_certificate      /home/user/conf/web/ssl.domain.com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key  /home/user/conf/web/ssl.domain.com.key;

# don't send the nginx version number in error pages and Server header
server_tokens off;

# 100M tan fazla dosya yüklemesini engelliyor
client_max_body_size 100m;

    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
    add_header Content-Security-Policy upgrade-insecure-requests;

    location / {

        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;

        location ~* ^.+\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|bmp|ico|svg|css|js)$ {
            expires     max;
        }

        location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
                return  404;
            }

            fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9003;
            fastcgi_index   index.php;
            include         /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        }

#I moved files from public to up directory so I have added these.

       location /forum {

         try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$query_string;

         location ~ ^/tr/flarum {

                       return 404;
          }

    location ~ ^/tr/storage/(.*)?$ {

      return 404;
    }

    location ~ ^/tr/vendor/(.*)?$ {

     rewrite ^/(.*) https://domain.com/forum;

      return 404;
    }


  }


    }

    error_page  403 /error/404.html;
    error_page  404 /error/404.html;
    error_page  500 502 503 504 /error/50x.html;

    location /error/ {
        alias   /home/user/web/domain.com/document_errors/;
    }

    location ~* "/\.(htaccess|htpasswd)$" {
        deny    all;
        return  404;
    }

    location /vstats/ {
        alias   /home/user/web/domain.com/stats/;
        include /home/user/conf/web/domain.com.auth*;
    }

    include     /etc/nginx/conf.d/phpmyadmin.inc*;
    include     /etc/nginx/conf.d/phppgadmin.inc*;
    include     /etc/nginx/conf.d/webmail.inc*;

    include     /home/user/conf/web/snginx.domain.com.conf*;
}

Add this part

#I moved files from public to up directory so I have added these.

       location /forum {

         try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$query_string;

         location ~ ^/forum/flarum {

                       return 404;
          }

    location ~ ^/forum/storage/(.*)?$ {

      return 404;
    }

    location ~ ^/forum/vendor/(.*)?$ {

     rewrite ^/(.*) https://domain.com/forum;

      return 404;
    }

  }

George-field

fakruzaruret This jsut gives me a 404 not found

fakruzaruret

George-field can you change /tr to /forum (I forgot 🙂 ) ? I use these at https://erasmusplus.club/tr/ and https://erasmusplus.club/en/

George-field

fakruzaruret yeah, I jsut copy and pasted this

  location /forum {

         try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$query_string;

         location ~ ^/forum/flarum {

                       return 404;
          }

    location ~ ^/forum/storage/(.*)?$ {

      return 404;
    }

    location ~ ^/forum/vendor/(.*)?$ {

     rewrite ^/(.*) https://domain.com/forum;

      return 404;
    }

  }

This is a horrible problem haha - I have spent nearly 3 days on this now 🙁

fakruzaruret

George-field have you solved?

George-field

fakruzaruret I have not 🙁 another question - is the include /var/www/flarum/.nginx.conf; needed as well?

fakruzaruret

George-field our directory scheme is different. I use php fpm. My nginx files under /home/user/conf/web/

George-field

fakruzaruret I see, I am close I now have all the main files loading but NO CSS or styles - Now have it set up as follows:

root /var/www/flarum;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    server_name example.com www.example.com;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    }

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

fakruzaruret

George-field May be you can try

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

George-field

fakruzaruret That has not worked 🙁 plus I need it on /forum really. I think I may need to somehow make these asset files available

George-field

fakruzaruret

Opted to go with subdomains now - thanks for all of your help!

George-field

If anyone has any other ideas - really appreciated

clarkwinkelmann

First I would strongly recommend to not use subfolder, but to prefer using two subdomains instead. It's much easier to setup, easier to maintain and more isolated.

That being said I've been successfully using two location blocks, one for each app. The forum is installed with the "customizing paths" instructions to remove the public folder. The second location block just needs the /forum prefix in the rule and path. The Flarum sensitive file rules also need to be prefixed with the subfolder.

My servers are managed through Laravel Forge, so most of the configuration was pre-generated by Forge. I only added a second location block and added the sensitive files rules. I personally don't use the .nginx.conf file shipped with Flarum because my nginx defaults cover all of those already, but this will vary from setup to setup.

Here's an excerpt from my Forge configuration. I kept the surrounding configuration to give context to the location blocks:

EDIT: my Flarum is simply inside a folder named forum inside of the Wordpress document root if that's not obvious from the config file.

server {
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
    server_name wordpress-flarum-demo.http418.ch;
    root /home/forge/wordpress-flarum-demo.http418.ch/;

    # I removed the SSL configuration from here

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
    include forge-conf/wordpress-flarum-demo.http418.ch/server/*;

    # Wordpress
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

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

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

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/wordpress-flarum-demo.http418.ch-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

George-field

clarkwinkelmann This appears to be doing something, it is now giving me a white screen. Not sure why though

George-field

Also, when I add this fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; it loads on bothj / and /forum however the styles do not load, just raw html