NGINX: L4 not working properly - regular PHP/HTML still works

posted 11 years ago

I've got Fedora 20 on my dev machine and for smaller projects, tests and for learning purposes I'd like to not have to set up a virtual server using Vagrant all the time. So since I intend to use NGINX as the preferred web server for my future projects I use NGINX on my local machine. Before I used to use Linux Mint and found a good default server configuration for my local machine which worked well for a "userdir". Now I'm on Fedora 20 and when running a Laravel application on it no CSS or JS is available and not even HTML renders.

This is rather strange since if I try creating a regulear PHP application using just plain old PHP, and/or HTML, everything works. CSS, JS and HTML renders weather it's static or dynamic. Weather it's hardcoded into the HTML or created with PHP/JS.

If anyone is interested I've uploaded my sites-enabled coonfiguration file to the pastebin: My default site config

Last updated 3 years ago.

jameswagoner

replied 11 years ago

I successfully set up my nginx server-config to run laravel.

I see your root is not set correctly (assuming you have a traditional laravel installation and not symlinking). Here is my root setting:

root /srv/www/hostname/public;

My setup runs on CentOS 6 following a guide here: Install and configure Nginx, MySQL & PHP-FPM in CentOS 6

There is a section there for a laravel config block.

Good luck

Last updated 3 years ago.

villimagg

replied 11 years ago

Solution

wagonerwebworks said:

My setup runs on CentOS 6 following a guide here: Install and configure Nginx, MySQL & PHP-FPM in CentOS 6

There is a section there for a laravel config block.

Thank you for the link! That was very useful since I'm probably going to use CentOS in the future for my web host :D

I finally found out what my problem was. It's been a while since I've touched a Laravel application so I'm a bit rusty. I was forgetting to do chmod -R o+w app/storage for my app to work with the web server. It worked when I did artisan serve but that a php development server so it's different.

The root is alright since this is my local machine and I never use the root of the web server. I only use a "userdir" sort of under /home/username/sites hence the following block from my nginx config:

# Userdir - php
       location ~ ^/~([^/]+)/(.+\.php)$ {
        if (!-f /home/$1/sites/$2) {
            rewrite ^ 404;
        }
        alias /home/$1/sites/$2;
	fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $request_filename;
}
 
# Userdir - static
location ~ ^/~([^/]+)(/.*)?$ {
             alias /home/$1/sites$2;
             autoindex on;
}

I bookmarked the site you posted for future reference. Thanks again.

Last updated 3 years ago.

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