NGINX compat (working)

[webketje]

Tested and working.

Setup

• Build: GS 3.4 Alpha
• Server: NGINX 1.10.3
• Server setup: local virtual host (getsimple.local)
• OS: Ubuntu 16.04

Procedure

(NB: most of the commands have to be prefixed with sudo)

1. If not already installed, sudo apt-get install nginx and PHP.
2. Install all of the following (replace 7.0 with PHP version installed)

   php7.0-xml
   php7.0-SimpleXML
   php7.0-dom
   php7.0-curl
   php7.0-zip
   php7.0-gd

3. Pull GetSimple into home subdir:

   cd ~/Sites
   mkdir GS34
   git clone https://github.com/GetSimpleCMS/GetSimpleCMS.git GS34

4. Create symlink to /var/www/nginx/GS34 directory

   ln -s GS34 /var/www/nginx/GS34

5. Setup NGINX virtual host

   cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
   cp default getsimple.local
   nano getsimple.local

   Edit file with nano. These are the file contents:

   server {
       listen 127.0.0.1;
   
       root /var/www/nginx/GS34;
   
       index index.php index.html;
   
       server_name getsimple.local;
   
       location { 
               try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
       }
   
       location ~ \.php$ {
               include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
               include fastcgi_params;
   
               # With php7.0-fpm:
               fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
       }
   }

6. Make it available to NGINX & restart

   ln -s getsimple.local ../sites-enabled/getsimple.local
   systemctl restart nginx

7. Had some difficulties with setting user/group permissions but that's probably due to my limited experience with it. This is what I did:

   cd ~/Sites/GS34
   sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
   sudo usermod -a -G www-data $USER
   find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} +
   find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} +

   Everything worked except fancy-URL related functionality but that's because I didn't specify any location directives.

Perhaps the 'Apache Error' should be replaced by a warning? Status also reports "error" while there is no real error, just not the 'preferred setup' + is clickable but links to nothing.

See also #472 and GS and NGINX

NEXT UP

Migrating Apache .htaccess to NGINX conf files. Options -Indexes directive equivalent sends 403 Forbidden by default in NGINX.

[tablatronix]

please add to https://github.com/GetSimpleCMS/GS_Configs add subfolder, readme, and scripts, perhaps add a package manager to fetch php dependencies ala composer

I agree about warning, but a very severe warning! lol Regardless you are suppose suppress apache warnings in gsconfig if not using apache