nginx vs clean url's

[Webfoundry]

Hi all,

I'm trying to implement this code to support clean (aka Search Engine Friendly) URLs for ALL sites in the server by following next tutorial for Joomla! : http://docs.joomla.org/Nginx

location / {
   try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

This doesn't seem to work as it looks like DA uses /home as homedirectory for sites, while nginx.conf refers to /var/www/html as root

server {
        listen       xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80;
        server_name  $hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
        [B]root   /var/www/html;[/B]
        index  index.html index.htm index.php;

        location / {
                access_log off;
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
                proxy_set_header X-Client-IP      $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Accel-Internal /nginx_static_files;
                proxy_set_header Host             $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                [B][I]try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; --> does not work[/I][/B]
        }


        location /nginx_static_files/ {
                access_log  /var/log/nginx/access_log_proxy;
                alias       /var/www/html/;
                internal;
        }
    }

Is there a fix to get clean URL's to work ?

---

Is it perhaps also due to this "wrong" root location that next code in /usr/local/directadmin/data/users/admin/nginx.conf my .htaccess files don't get denied as they should ?

# deny access to apache .htaccess files
        location ~ /\.ht
        {
                deny all;
        }

Thanks for all your support and kind help.
Sixten

 

[scsi]

No it doesnt it uses /home/user/domains/domain.com/public_html the only site your are looking at is the main web folder. All virtual hosts of user sites are from the template.

http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=2

 

[Webfoundry]

Oh ok, I had the idea that this file only had influence on apache, not nginx.
That makes me even more puzzled why mod_rewrite does not work.

RewriteEngine on

But when (in Joomla!) I enable URL rewriting, only the frontpage of the site works. So something goes bad.

http://178.79.130.161/~xpandr/
http://178.79.130.161/~xpandr/contacts


P.S. : as I thought it was an nginx-apache CustomBuild 2.0 issue I posted in this forum.

 

[Webfoundry]

When I use this testingsite (plain out-of-the-box Joomla) :

without .htaccess :
404 Not Found
The requested URL /~xpandr/contacts was not found on this server.

with .htaccess :
404 Not Found
The requested URL /home/xpandr/public_html/index.php was not found on this server.

 

[Webfoundry]

Can anyone perhaps help me with how I can get an nginx rewrite command to work for all domains ?
It's the last thing that is keeping me from getting my server into production. All help welcomed

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

 

[scsi]

There might be another nginx template file in /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates the other ones are probably for apache only. If there is just copy it to the custom folder and edit it to your liking, then run:

echo "action=rewrite&value=httpd" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue
/usr/local/directadmin/dataskq d30

 

[zEitEr]

For NGINX that should be:

echo "action=rewrite&value=nginx" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue
/usr/local/directadmin/dataskq d
/etc/init.d/nginx restart