File Routing not working after chaning to subdirectory

TNCR

Hello,

I just moved my current flarum installation from a subdomain to a subdirectory path. The main index.php works, but the .css and .js won't load. (404 Error).

All the files from the public directory are now one layer up, where the other configs like config.php and flarum are. I changed the index.php and site.php to fix the paths. (According to this guide)

I haven't changed the Nginx config aside from adding the subfolder route.

My Nginx config

server {
        listen 80 default_server;
        listen [::]:80 default_server;

        root /var/www/forum;

        server_name example.com/forum; # Changed from actual domain to example for this post

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

        location ~ \.php$ {
               include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;

               # With php-fpm (or other unix sockets):
               fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
        #       # With php-cgi (or other tcp sockets):
        #       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        }

}

The Flarum nignx file:

# Pass requests that don't refer directly to files in the filesystem to index.php
location /forum {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

# The following directives are based on best practices from H5BP Nginx Server Configs
# https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs-nginx

# Expire rules for static content
location ~* \.(?:manifest|appcache|html?|xml|json)$ {
  add_header Cache-Control "max-age=0";
}

location ~* \.(?:rss|atom)$ {
  add_header Cache-Control "max-age=3600";
}

location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc)$ {
  add_header Cache-Control "max-age=2592000";
  access_log off;
}

location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
  add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000";
  access_log off;
}

location ~* \.(?:ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|woff2)$ {
  add_header Cache-Control "max-age=2592000";
  access_log off;
}

# Gzip compression
gzip on;
gzip_comp_level 5;
gzip_min_length 256;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_vary on;
gzip_types
    application/atom+xml
    application/javascript
    application/json
    application/ld+json
    application/manifest+json
    application/rss+xml
    application/vnd.geo+json
    application/vnd.ms-fontobject
    application/x-font-ttf
    application/x-web-app-manifest+json
    application/xhtml+xml
    application/xml
    font/opentype
    image/bmp
    image/svg+xml
    image/x-icon
    text/cache-manifest
    text/css
    text/plain
    text/vcard
    text/vnd.rim.location.xloc
    text/vtt
    text/x-component
    text/x-cross-domain-policy;

Edit: I forgot to mention my Flarum version, etc.

Flarum core 0.1.0-beta.13
PHP version: 7.3.19-1~deb10u1
Loaded extensions: Core, date, libxml, openssl, pcre, zlib, filter, hash, pcntl, Reflection, SPL, session, sodium, standard, mysqlnd, PDO, xml, calendar, ctype, curl, dom, mbstring, fileinfo, ftp, gd, gettext, iconv, json, exif, mysqli, pdo_mysql, Phar, posix, readline, shmop, SimpleXML, sockets, sysvmsg, sysvsem, sysvshm, tokenizer, wddx, xmlreader, xmlwriter, xsl, zip, Zend OPcache
+---------------------------------+----------------+--------+
| Flarum Extensions               |                |        |
+---------------------------------+----------------+--------+
| ID                              | Version        | Commit |
+---------------------------------+----------------+--------+
| flarum-approval                 | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-bbcode                   | v0.1.0-beta.12 |        |
| flarum-emoji                    | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-lang-english             | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-flags                    | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-likes                    | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-lock                     | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-markdown                 | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-mentions                 | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-statistics               | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-sticky                   | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-subscriptions            | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-suspend                  | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| flarum-tags                     | v0.1.0-beta.13 |        |
| cbmainz-de                      | 0.12.1         |        |
| fof-polls                       | 0.1.2          |        |
| nomiscz-auth-steam              | v0.1.7         |        |
| michaelbelgium-discussion-views | v4.0.1         |        |
| fof-upload                      | 0.10.0         |        |
| fof-auth-discord                | 0.1.3          |        |
| v17development-seo              | 1.2.1          |        |
| fof-sitemap                     | 0.5.3          |        |
| fof-user-directory              | 0.3.4          |        |
| clarkwinkelmann-circle-groups   | 0.2.1          |        |
+---------------------------------+----------------+--------+
Base URL: https://example.com/forum
Installation path: /var/www/forum
Debug mode: off

clarkwinkelmann

TNCR do the js and css files exist at the location they are supposed to be? Trying to know if the 404 is due to the files not existing, or due to a configuration problem in Apache.

TNCR

@clarkwinkelmann the files are in the assets folder. It was working when I had it on a subdomain. And I'm not using Apache. My nginx config is in my OP.

TNCR

For clarification: On the left my folder with my Flarum installation and on the right the browser output from example.com/forum

And this was all working when I had it on a subdomain. I currently can't see the mistake.

TNCR

After some testing, I found out, that the js and CSS files got served to example.com/assets/... and not example.com/forum/assets/...

But I don't see, why it's behaving like this.

clarkwinkelmann

Did you update the url in config.php ? It seems you have from the php flarum info output above, but maybe something went wrong there anyway.

If you have not already, try clearing the cache with php flarum cache:clear

TNCR

What is wrong with the URL? Base URL: https://example.com/forum should be right. Of course, I'm using example instant of my actual domain because it's local. As stated above.

clarkwinkelmann

I suspect the issue is with your nginx config, however I don't know enough about nginx to say for sure.

I think server_name is incorrect. I think it needs to contain just a domain name, no path.

There will be a single nginx config for both the site at the root (/) and Flarum (/forum), so this means you will probably also have two location blocks with try_files statements.

Here's what I'm using on an nginx hosting that has Wordpress at / and Flarum at /forum:

(I have everything inside of my main nginx config, but the location blocks could be in a separately included file like Flarum ships with)

server {
    # Other stuff

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

    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;
    }

    # Other stuff
}