Help me set up my conf file

Cactus

Running flarum on nginx and I'm having some odd issues.

I can browse the forum, but if I go somewhere, and then refresh the page, I get a 404 error.

Here's my config:

location / {
index index.php
    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;
}

location /flarum {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}
location ~ .php$ {
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

Adding index index.php to location / was the only way to get the forum to load without 403 errors.

Kulga

Your location ~ .php$ looks a little strange
Here's what mine looks like

location ~ .php$ {
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            fastcgi_index index.php;
            include fastcgi_params;
}

skorotkiewicz

chown -R www-data /var/www/flarum

Kulga

skorotkiewicz how do you know that's the location of OP's install? How will that fix it?

I did not need to change ownership of my install at all.

Cactus

skorotkiewicz tried that, no dice. Also changed perms to 755 recursively.

Kulga I figured out what directory he meant 😉
I tried your php$ setup and now I have a blank page on the index.

Kulga

Cactus Check nginx/error.log?
Here's the installation doc
I attempted to edit the previous post but it wouldn't let me.

Cactus

Kulga
edited for anonymity:

2015/08/29 03:51:23 [error] 5977#5977: *158 directory index of "<flarum path>" is forbidden, client: 123.123.123.123, server: <domain.com>, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "<domain.com>"

I don't understand, if all the perms are correct, what's going on?

Kulga

Cactus
That's confusing. Especially since your original setup was partially working.
Check out this link?
Few things though.

Permissions have to be readable up to the directory /var and /var/www (for example)
the webserver will need to be able to read it

For clarity, your nginx setup looks like this correct? ^taken ^from ^install ^doc

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;
}

location /flarum {
    deny all;
    return 404;
}

location ~ .php$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    include fastcgi_params;
}

Cactus

Kulga yep, looks like that.

Just realized I forgot a curly brace at the end of my server block, so now we're not getting a blank page anymore. We are getting a 403 error now.

Toby

Try adding the following line above the first location block:

index index.html index.htm index.php;

Cactus

Toby Thanks. Still giving me a 403 error.

jarek

I have similar issue.

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /flarum/flarum/ on this server.
Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) Server at dev........pl Port 80

All directory (var/www/flarum/flarum) have 777

My virtual host settings:

    ServerName .......................pl
    ServerAlias www......................pl
    DocumentRoot /var/www/................pl
    <Directory />
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    <Directory /var/www/...............pl>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
    </Directory>

Cactus

henrywright My ports are configured correctly.

jarek Are all the files owned by and in the group www-data?

henrywright

Perhaps check your firewalls to make sure they allow port 80? Just an idea.

jarek

Cactus replied

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/

my problem solved, thanks Cactus

Cactus

jarek It didn't solve my problem, but I'm glad it solved yours.

Cactus

Still need some help with this. I'm about to delete every single nginx config file and start over, because this really doesn't seem to be a permissions issue.

Kulga

Cactus You're using php-fpm as a backend for php requests?
I know misconfigured php-fpm pools can cause permission denied errors.

Cactus

Kulga That is correct. What are some steps I can take to solve it going that route?

Kulga

Cactus Are you 100% sure your root /location/of/flarum/install; is accurate?
I encountered this problem in my setup guide

Cactus

Kulga I am positive. I rechecked my php-fpm config and found no issues. My other sites function fine.

I chmod'd the public_html folder for that site to 775, so now I'm getting a blank page instead of the 403 error, but the error log is still showing a permissions error.