Ruby Forum NGINX > how to rewrite this: apache to nginx

Hello, I am trying to rewrite for a webpage, some stuff from apache to
nginx, somehow I am not doing it right coz its not working... Can some
one help me to rewrite this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?\.svn(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?api(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?libs(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?plugins(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?storage(/|$) - [F,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?templates(/|$) - [F,L]

to nginx?!

Thank you!

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:54:38AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?libs(/|$) - [F,L]
> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?plugins(/|$) - [F,L]
> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?storage(/|$) - [F,L]
> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?templates(/|$) - [F,L]
> 
> to nginx?!

server {

    root ...

    location / {
        error_page  404 = /index.php;
    }

    location ~* \.php$ {
        ...
    }

    location ~* ^(.*/)?(\.svn|api|libs|plugins|storage|templates)(/|$) {
        return  403;
    }

But what about this?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . index.php [L]


Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:54:38AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:
> 
>> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?libs(/|$) - [F,L]
>> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?plugins(/|$) - [F,L]
>> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?storage(/|$) - [F,L]
>> RewriteRule ^(.*/)?templates(/|$) - [F,L]
>> 
>> to nginx?!
> 
> server {
> 
>     root ...
> 
>     location / {
>         error_page  404 = /index.php;
>     }
> 
>     location ~* \.php$ {
>         ...
>     }
> 
>     location ~* ^(.*/)?(\.svn|api|libs|plugins|storage|templates)(/|$) {
>         return  403;
>     }

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:13:20AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> But what about this?
> 
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    location / {
        error_page  404 = /index.php;
    }

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:13:20AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:
> 
>> But what about this?
>> 
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>> RewriteRule . index.php [L]
> 
>     location / {
>         error_page  404 = /index.php;
>     }

It doesnt work, I was thinking to do it like this:

if (!-f $request_filename) {
 rewrite  .  /index.php  last;
 break;
}

But this doesnt work eider, the website doesnt seems to work and if I 
dont use any rewrite rules I get 404 error and if I use the rules, its 
just messed up.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:28:03AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> >         error_page  404 = /index.php;
> >     }
> 
> It doesnt work, I was thinking to do it like this:
> 
> if (!-f $request_filename) {
>  rewrite  .  /index.php  last;
>  break;
> }

No, do not use this.

> But this doesnt work eider, the website doesnt seems to work and if I 
> dont use any rewrite rules I get 404 error and if I use the rules, its 
> just messed up.

Could you show your configuration ?

The subdomain config:

server {
  listen   80;
  server_name  helpdesk.visualserver.org *.helpdesk.visualserver.org;

  access_log  /var/log/nginx/helpdesk-access_log;
  error_log  /var/log/nginx/helpdesk-error_log;

  location / {
    root   /srv/www/helpdesk;
    index  index.php index.html index.htm;
    error_page  404 = /index.php;
  }

  location ~* ^(.*/)?(\.svn|api|libs|plugins|storage|templates)(/|$) {
           return  403;
       }

        location ~* \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:50000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;

                    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME 
/srv/www/helpdesk$fastcgi_script_name;
                    fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
                    fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD   $request_method;
                    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE     $content_type;
                    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH   $content_length;
        fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
        fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
        fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
        fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
        fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
        # PHP only, required if PHP was built with 
--enable-force-cgi-redirect
        fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
        }

  #error_page  404  /404.html;

  # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
  #
  error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
  location = /50x.html {
    root   /var/www/nginx-default;
  }

}

nginx config:

user www-data;
worker_processes  2;

pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/error_log info;

events {
    worker_connections      1024;
    use         epoll;
}

http {
    include        /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type        application/octet-stream;
    server_tokens      off;
    server_names_hash_bucket_size  128;
    sendfile              on;
    tcp_nopush            on;
    tcp_nodelay            on;
    keepalive_timeout        4;
    gzip         on;
    gzip_min_length        1100;
    gzip_comp_level       2;
    gzip_types            text/plain text/html text/css;

    include         /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
    include         /etc/nginx/sites-users/*;
    include        /etc/nginx/sites-virtual/*;
}

So thats about it...

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:41:51AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> The subdomain config:

Does simple http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php work ?

Probably you need to move
     root   /srv/www/helpdesk;
to server level to inherit it in "location ~* \.php$" and to get
right $document_root variable in fastcgi_param.

PS. looking at these indentions I'm starting to understand python more
and more.

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:41:51AM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:
> 
>> The subdomain config:
> 
> Does simple http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php work ?
> 
> Probably you need to move
>      root   /srv/www/helpdesk;
> to server level to inherit it in "location ~* \.php$" and to get
> right $document_root variable in fastcgi_param.
> 
> PS. looking at these indentions I'm starting to understand python more
> and more.

Yes http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php works,  but when I try to 
login everything starts to be screwed up.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> > right $document_root variable in fastcgi_param.
> > 
> > PS. looking at these indentions I'm starting to understand python more
> > and more.
> 
> Yes http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php works,  but when I try to 
> login everything starts to be screwed up.

The login page POSTs to /index.php/, then browser gets various URLs 
like:
/index.php/styles/default/cerberus.css?v=726

Is it correct ?

Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:
> 
>> > right $document_root variable in fastcgi_param.
>> > 
>> > PS. looking at these indentions I'm starting to understand python more
>> > and more.
>> 
>> Yes http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php works,  but when I try to 
>> login everything starts to be screwed up.
> 
> The login page POSTs to /index.php/, then browser gets various URLs 
> like:
> /index.php/styles/default/cerberus.css?v=726
> 
> Is it correct ?

Yeah something like that, or 
http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php/login

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:10:47PM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> > 
> > The login page POSTs to /index.php/, then browser gets various URLs 
> > like:
> > /index.php/styles/default/cerberus.css?v=726
> > 
> > Is it correct ?
> 
> Yeah something like that, or 
> http://helpdesk.visualserver.org/index.php/login

Then you need to change

-       location ~* \.php$ {
+       location ~* \.php(/|$) {

Done that, doesnt work, I really cant get the idea why it doesnt work... 
This is shitty :(

P.S. this is cerb4 (cerberus helpdesk)

Robert Gabriel wrote:
> Done that, doesnt work, I really cant get the idea why it doesnt work... 
>   
What is in a error log ?

Actually in /var/log/nginx/helpdesk-error_log I dont have any errors and 
in access_log seems everything ok.

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 01:45:59PM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> Done that, doesnt work, I really cant get the idea why it doesnt work... 
> This is shitty :(
> 
> P.S. this is cerb4 (cerberus helpdesk)

Then you probably need to add PATH_INFO:

        location  ~* \.php(/|$) {

             set $path_info "";

             if ($uri ~ \.php(/.+)$) {
                 set $path_info $1;
             }

             ...
             fastcgi_param   PATH_INFO  $path_info;
             ...
        }

set $path_info ""; this blank or where the scripts are?

I suppose something like this:

        location ~* \.php(/|$) {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:50000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
             set $path_info "";
             if ($uri ~ \.php(/.+)$) {
                 set $path_info $1;
                        }
                    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME 
/srv/www/helpdesk$fastcgi_script_name;
                    fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO        $path_info;
                    fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
                    fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD   $request_method;
                    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE     $content_type;
                    fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH   $content_length;
        }

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:18:36PM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> /srv/www/helpdesk$fastcgi_script_name;
>                     fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO        $path_info;
>                     fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
>                     fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD   $request_method;
>                     fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE     $content_type;
>                     fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH   $content_length;
>         }

Yes.

Good, it doesnt work :)

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:18:52PM +0200, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> Good, it doesnt work :)

Could you create debug log ?

Well like how, even if i set nginx to debug I wont have any "error" or 
something like that. So let me know how...

Hello, nobody else can help out with this weird issue? Does anyone uses, 
or used Cerberus Helpdesk with nginx? Please let me know, its really 
important ...

Thanks!

Hi, if you create a debug log it will help Igor S and others to
understand what's going on under the hood, and possibly fix the
problem. Compile nginx with --with-debug and set the log level in your
nginx.conf to 'debug', and you''ll see a great deal of data in the log
files.

cheers,
Igor

On 29 Aug 2008, at 20:39, Robert Gabriel wrote:

> Well like how, even if i set nginx to debug I wont have any "error" or
> something like that. So let me know how...

Ok so please check the attachement, I rebuild nginx with --with-debug
and enable debug in the helpdesk subdomain/vhost, as u wish. Please let
me know if u can help me out.

Please download it from here, coz its to big.
http://www.visualserver.org/helpdesk-error_log.gz

What about this issue, has anybody some ideas or fixed?!