Lack of api.php file after installing Flarum

Xieyuschen

I'm new to flarum so I installed flarum with the guide of this post. I followed its guide and it quite helps me a lot, I installed it successfully by edge browser. However when I wanted to publish a post I failed, I enter f12 to see the details, it said that the /api/disscussion is 404. I knew this is caused by nginx reverse-proxy, so I check my nginx config file and found the following key port:

server {
    listen   80;
server_name hustport.pivotstudio.cn;
root /Flarum/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

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; }

I found location /api { try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php?$query_string; } means that when a request comes in, nginx will find api.php with query_string to deal with this request and then give a response back. But I found my public folder doesn't contain a file named api.php, neither an admin.php. I'm very confused for why I lost those two significant php file.

luceos

That tutorial is obviously outdated as we no longer have those separate files. Look under the resources tag for more recent tutorials or use the https://docs.flarum.org/ to get you started.

Xieyuschen

luceos Ok and I need to learn about the newest guide, thanks for your help

Xieyuschen

Thank you for your help again and I solve my question successfully by editing nginx.conf. In the new edition all things are nested to index.php so all requests such as /api/discussions will be charged by index.php file in public folder. All I need to do is to remove /api and /admin location and hold on the /.
The new nginx.conf key part:

server {
    listen   80;
server_name hustport.pivotstudio.cn;
root /Flarum/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

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

# I remove two lines below by comments because the api.php and admin.php is nested in index.php 
# location /api { try_files $uri $uri/ /api.php?$query_string; }
# location /admin { try_files $uri $uri/ /admin.php?$query_string; }

# many other config settings
# .................
}

luceos

Xieyuschen nginx instructions are also contained in the docs, there's also an nginx configuration shipped with new installs. If this works for you, don't change a thing though 👍️