I need help for converting Apache config into Nginx config

aleveltech

https://github.com/nathanli97/cacheautomated
So the thing is that a member from FlarumCN community have written a way to speed up flarum by caching all files in assets/ on jsdelivr. Unfortunately he runs flarum on Apache and have only provided a .htaccess config below↓

Create a .htaccess file in /pathToFlarum/assets/ with following configuration

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !index.php

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !test.php

RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

I have tried 6 hours while discussing with the author, but still cannot convert the apache config into an Nginx config that can be used for flarum.

PS: Tons of flarum websites will have 1800%(by the author) faster speed in China if the problem of Nginx config solved

clarkwinkelmann

aleveltech I don't understand what the test.php is supposed to be as there no such file in the linked repo or Flarum, but it seems like it's just an "handle every request with index.php except index.php and test.php" rule?

What have you tried so far in nginx?

aleveltech

clarkwinkelmann
The author of that repo has written a index.php which is intended to place in assets/, and all request to the heavy js/css in assets/ need to be redirected to the index.php in assets/.
This index.php will than redirect the requests to the CDN to accelerate forum.

I have tried things like this, using an apache2nginx config converter

if ($request_filename !~ "index.php"){
 set $rule_0 1$rule_0;
}
if ($rule_0 = "1"){
 rewrite ^/ /index.php last;
}

But it does not work. According to the author the .htaccess file place in assets/ file, and I tried using things like Location ^~ assets/{} but still does not work...

clarkwinkelmann

Wouldn't something like this suffice?

location /assets/ {
    try_files /assets/index.php?$query_string;
}

Does index.php really need to be excluded from the match rule? Maybe that rule was just for some Apache quirks?

aleveltech

clarkwinkelmann Thanks, but I got this
[emerg] invalid number of arguments in "try_files"
According to the author, index.php may not need to be excluded.