Failed install on Ubuntu 18.04, Nginx, MariaDB

luceos

Your path to the nginx servers configurations might be different.

luceos

What is the output of nginx -V?

luceos

Do any other files exist in sites-enabled?

m4v3rick

What's in the conf.d folder?
I have a similar set up.

I am using the nginx.conf inside the /etc/nginx folder. It points to a conf inside conf.d. And that conf points to the flarum folder.

What does (sudo) nginx -t show?

You might wanna show the code inside the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf please.

luceos

OwlGreen /etc/nginx/conf.d/

This is where you need to store the website vhost configuration file I think.

luceos

OwlGreen yes that's exactly what I meant. Well done "not profi" ☺️

luceos

OwlGreen sounds like fpm isn't properly configured.

m4v3rick

OwlGreen /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

See, there is the code that calls: include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

Inside the conf.d folder should be your actual website.conf, e.g. flarum.conf which in my case also calls: include /var/www/flarum/.nginx.conf;

As far as I remember after some nginx update sites-available/sites-enabled did change and weren't in use anymore. But I only have one site (flarum) on my nginx.

Your flarum.conf belongs to the conf.d folder, but it is inside your sites-available folder. nginx -t will still be successful, because it doesn't find any config inside the conf.d folder.

Edit: oh, that part has already been answered by @luceos . :\

m4v3rick

After copying the file over to the conf.d folder you restarted the nginx server. Did you nginx -t again?

You could take a look at this:
https://www.metricfire.com/blog/understanding-nginx-502-bad-gateway-php-fpm/

m4v3rick

OwlGreen

Seems like you have provided multiple blocks to nginx that are listening on port 80.

You should remove those.

Inside your /etc/nginx/conf.d/flarum.conf

Remove the first:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name mydomain.com;
return 301 http://mydomain.com$request_uri;
}

return 301 http://mydomain.com$request_uri; <-- that one you could put into the second server part.
Then try run "nginx -t" again please.

Are there still warnings?

m4v3rick

OwlGreen

At least less warnings. 😃

Did you empty both folders?
sites-available
sites-enabled

There shouldn't be any more conf file inside.

What's in your /var/www/flarum/config.php:
'url' => 'mydomain.com'

Or are you using a subdomain? The server_name in your "server" part should be the same as in here. Are you using http?

m4v3rick

OwlGreen If remove flarum.conf in /etc/nginx/conf.d/ this warning not show in nginx -t

That you shouldn't do. Your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf calls the file in that folder.

m4v3rick

Oh and one more thing. There is no need to restart nginx all the time. Reload is also fine after conf changes.

sudo systemctl reload nginx

Edit: By any chance did you clear your browser's cache after changing all that? If nginx -t is successful without warnings and php-fpm is running, try clear the browser cache and check the site again.

m4v3rick

OwlGreen Omg, I don't have this file in Flarum directory, why?

You need that file for flarum to be working.

Try to read through the docs here:
https://docs.flarum.org/install/
https://docs.flarum.org/troubleshoot

Careful also with your 777 permission. The flarum installation documentation warns about it.

Not sure why there is no config but if you just set flarum up (fresh installation) I would just delete the content of the /var/www/flarum folder completely, clear the database (drop the tables) and try to follow the installation guide. It is quite straight forward.