502 gateway error using Flarum nginx.conf

rustandruin

When I include the nginx.conf file to my default nginx configuration, by adding the include line below, I get 502 gateway errors whenever I try to access anything on the server.
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server {
listen 8080 default;
server_name sitename;
root /media/66bc/uname/www/$host/public_html/public;
index index.html index.php;

autoindex            on;
autoindex_exact_size off;
autoindex_localtime  on;


# Pass files that end in .php to PHP
location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_read_timeout 1h;
    fastcgi_send_timeout 10m;

    include      /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/media/66bc/uname/.nginx/php/socket;

}

include /media/66bc/uname/www/$host/public_html/.nginx.conf;

# Deny access to anything starting with .ht
location ~ /\.ht {
    deny  all;
}

include conf.d/000-default-server.d/*.conf;

When I don't include it, Flarum loads but I can't do anything, as I get "resource not found" messages. The error.log for nginx gives errors like
2022/07/14 13:12:58 [error] 29511#29511: *27 open() "/media/66bc/uname/www/sitename/public_html/public/api/discussions" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 185.21.216.160, server: sitename, request: "GET /api/discussions?include=user%2ClastPostedUser%2CfirstPost%2Ctags%2Ctags.parent&sort&page%5Boffset%5D=0 HTTP/1.0", host: "sitename", referrer: "http://sitename/"
when I don't include .nginx.conf and try to do something in Flarum, but when I do load the conf file so that I immediately get 502 gateway errors trying to load any page, no errors are posted to the log.

Also, when I don't load .nginx.conf, my PHP is working correctly, as I tested a hello-world php script.

luceos

I'm on mobile. But try adding the include before the proxy statement, before you match PHP scripts.

rustandruin

Thanks for the suggestion luceos!

Previously I was killing nginx each time I changed the config because my providers check to restart it every few minutes, but when I tried your suggestion I manually reloaded with
/usr/sbin/nginx -s reload -c ~/.nginx/nginx.conf

This printed the informative error message
2022/07/14 14:10:10 [emerg] 2219#2219: open() "/media/66bc/uname/www/$host/public_html/.nginx.conf" failed (2: No such file or directory) in /media/66bc/uname/.nginx/conf.d/000-default-server.conf:1

Apparently the error is due to the variable $host not expanding (idk anything about nginx, I just assumed it would expand in the way it would in the declaration of root in the default configuration, and was trying to keep things portable), so I manually wrote in the correct directory instead. Everything is working after reloading nginx. Finally, a working Flarum install!