rewrite rules on nginx in sub folder

I have my blog (wordpress) set up in the /var/www folder with it's own NGINX Virtual Host writes but I need to get the writes set up for the forum in /var/www/forums. What do I need to add exactly the the sheet.

Code:

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  localhost;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;

## Default location
    location / {
        root   /var/www;
        index  index.php;
    }

## Images and static content is treated different
    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
      access_log        off;
      expires           30d;
      root /var/www;
    }

## Parse all .php file in the /var/www directory
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_pass   backend;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
        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_intercept_errors        on;
        fastcgi_ignore_client_abort     off;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
        fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
        fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
    }

## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}
upstream backend {
        server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

Hello,

You can't have your blog in the same directory as your forum.

Oh wait, I meant blog at

/var/www


Forum at

/var/www/forums

Was a bit tired last night

Hello Bradley ,

You need to define another location for forums directory with the supplied nginx rules within vBSEO.

Do these rules still apply? howto for nginx

Coincidentally the set up is the same.

Code:

location /forums/ {  rewrite ^/forums/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 last;  if ($request_filename ~ "\.php$" ) { rewrite ^(.*)$ /forums/vbseo.php last; }  if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/forums/(.*)$ /forums/vbseo.php last; }  }

Please use the nginx rules that comes with vBSEO package . You can find the rules inside htaccess folder.

Ok im confused honestly. I currently have the 'default' V file including the directives in the first post in my /etc/nginx/sites-enabled folder on the server.

Where am I inserting the vbseo nginx directives? In the same default file or in a new file? and if it's in the default file, can you show me in between where?

You can define them in same file

Code:

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  localhost;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;

## Default location
    location / {
        root   /var/www;
        index  index.php;
    }

## Images and static content is treated different
    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
      access_log        off;
      expires           30d;
      root /var/www;
    }

## Parse all .php file in the /var/www directory
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_pass   backend;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
        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_intercept_errors        on;
        fastcgi_ignore_client_abort     off;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
        fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
        fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
    }
location /forums/ {

rewrite ^/forums/((urllist|sitemap_).*\.(xml|txt)(\.gz)?)$ /forums/vbseo_sitemap/vbseo_getsitemap.php?sitemap=$1 last;

if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/forums/(.*)$ /forums/vbseo.php last;
}

}

if ($request_filename ~ "\.php$" ) {
rewrite ^/forums/(.*)$ /forums/vbseo.php last;
}

## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}
upstream backend {
        server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

I personally choose to keep all conf files for different folders and domains on a seperate conf file and include them with the following directive

Code:

    include /etc/nginx/sites/*.conf;

On my main conf file , i don't even have single server line defined.

Ok I see now what I also forgot to mention. I copied the wrong set up. Also I didnt bother to separate the files per host since it was only one site. However if you have a better recommendation, please show me. In the middle, there are directives for the blog which I think may cause conflicts for the forum.

This is the corrected directive I use (before vbseo)

Code:

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  motorthusiast.com www.motorthusiast.com;
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/localhost.access.log;

## Force WWW
    if ($host ~* ^motorthusiast\.com) {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ http://www.motorthusiast.com$1 permanent;
    }


## Default location
    location / {
        root   /var/www;
        index  index.php;


## this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
        }


    }

## Images and static content is treated different
    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
      access_log        off;
      expires           30d;
      root /var/www;
    }

## Parse all .php file in the /var/www directory
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_pass   backend;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /var/www$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
        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_intercept_errors        on;
        fastcgi_ignore_client_abort     off;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
        fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
        fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
    }


## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}
upstream backend {
        server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

We are sorry both Nginx customization is beyond our support. As i showed you should use the supplied nginx rules within vBSEO package.

Wow that sucks. I tried your example but get "Page Not Found" everytime I try to view forums. Could this line be a conflicting issue?

if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last; }

Edit - I also have a suspicion something may be of conflict. For example when I visit a thread via the old URL format, it then give me the URL to the newly permalink friendly format but the subfolder 'forums' is missing.

http://www.motorthusiast.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15

goes to

http://www.motorthusiast.com/aston-m...martin-db9-15/

rather than


http://www.motorthusiast.com/forums/...martin-db9-15/

Make sure your php files are correctly processed within forums folder.

My final conclusion is that

Code:

if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
        }

is causing the forum to use the main domain and delete the /forum part. However that bit is also necessary for the functioning of the main blog itself, so I need some kind of combination so when someone is on the home page, is uses that but in the forum, it uses the forum directives instead.

If you are using forums folder , then you need to update the rewrite rules and define forums folder. Please supply your full nginx.conf file now so we can see how you edited it.

nginx.zip

Right, that's the main configuration file and the virtual host file.