By spivi
Hey, I’m having some trouble setting up a site that uses Kirby CMS for the main site and WordPress in a subdirectory for a subsite.
I’ve done a lot of trial and error, and while the homepage and WordPress admin panel are working, WordPress inner pages are resulting in the Kirby CMS 404 page. I’ve tried the same configuration in a VM locally that has it working, but I can’t seem to get the subdirectory location block working on DigitalOcean.
I’ve included the server block from the nginx config below.
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name www.domain.com;
root /home/forge/www.domain.com/public;
# ssl info...
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
# FORGE CONFIG (DOT NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/www.domain.com/server/*;
##############################
## Kirby configuration
##############################
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^/panel/(.*) /panel/index.php break;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php last;
break;
}
location /content {
rewrite ^/content/(.*)\.(txt|md|mdown)$ /error redirect;
}
location /site {
rewrite ^/site/(.*) /error redirect;
}
location /kirby {
rewrite ^/kirby/(.*) /error redirect;
}
location ~* \.(ico|css|js|gif|jpeg|jpg|png|woff|ttf|otf|svg|woff2|eot)$ {
expires 1M;
add_header Pragma public;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
##############################
## End Kirby CMS configuration
##############################
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
# Subsite
location /subdir {
try_files $uri $uri/ /subdir/index.php?$uri&$args;
}
# Kirby panel links
location /panel {
try_files \$uri \$uri/ /panel/index.php?\$uri&\$args;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/www.domain.com-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.1-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
Any suggestions?
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Normally you’d want to use either root or alias on the location block when you’re referencing where files should be pulled from if they are not located in the web root.
So in the above configuration, you’re specifying that this is your web root:
/home/forge/www.domain.com/public
That means that content will be pulled from:
/home/forge/www.domain.com/public/content
site will be pulled from:
/home/forge/www.domain.com/public/site
kirby will be pulled from:
/home/forge/www.domain.com/public/kirby
subdir will be pulled from:
/home/forge/www.domain.com/public/subdir
and panel will be pulled from:
/home/forge/www.domain.com/public/panel
Is that the intended location for each directory? We should start there as much of your rewrites are targeting those directories and unless you need specific functionality, the blocks with rewrites would be much better off written as:
location /content {
alias /path/to/content;
}
location /site {
alias /path/to/site;
}
location /kirby {
alias /path/to/kirby;
}
I would also remove these blocks:
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^/panel/(.*) /panel/index.php break;
}
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php last;
break;
}
I tried to request a Node.js App beside the main kirby installation.
It works if I remove:
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php last;
break;
}
and I see nothing which doesn’t work in kirby. What is the reason for this rule?
Looks like Bastian is also not using this rule: https://gist.github.com/bastianallgeier/c2e1f1e519f5f2943ec4
Thanks @jtittle! I tried the alias directive for the /subdir location block, but it didn’t change the behavior.
Those rules (content, site, kirby, panel, $request_filename) are for blocking Kirby CMS directories. It’s basically a translation of the .htaccess rules here.
The /subdir directory is the one containing the WordPress installation. The links where a file can be found (domain.com/subdir => /subdir/index.php, domain.com/subdir/wp-admin/ => /subdir/wp-admin/index.php, domain.com/subdir/wp-admin/post.php?post=[postnum]&action=edit, etc) work, but when going to a permalink (domain.com/page-title) it returns a 404. If one goes to the non-permalinked url (domain.com?p=[postnum]) it 301 redirects to the correct permalink, but that url then 404s.
Here’s a little more info about the VM (where the simple try_files directive is working) and the droplet:
VM
nginx 1.11.1
Ubuntu 16.04
PHP 7.0.16
DO droplet
nginx 1.11.9
Ubuntu 16.04.2
PHP 7.1.2
They’re not huge differences, so I’m not sure why it’d be working fine in the VM but not on DO.
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