Help with nginx & serving internal app

try a solitary server config like this:

server {
  listen 80 default_server;
  server_name my_pretty_name.com;
  root /var/www/mySiteDir/public;
  index index.php index.html;
  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
  }
}

and remove any server block from your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file. This should do 2 things:

1. set the default for any IP-only incoming requests
2. match a specific request for your my_pretty_name.com domain

And, then even if you do have a entry in

/etc/hosts

123.45.67 my_pretty_name.com

It would still proxy the request.

Thanks so much for your help @burlresearch!

I'm closer, but still missing something... The pretty address still isn't working, but when I go to the IP it's now downloading the artisan file.

Still showing nothing in the browser though.

Any additional help would be super appreciated!

If the PHP file is being downloaded, and not rendered, there is chance you are missing the PHP processor, like FPM, try:

$ sudo apt-get install php-fpm 

and you may still have some other dependencies to install if your LEMP server is still incomplete. Hopefully that will help you get on the right path.

If ther server_name still isn't resolving - are you sure you've edited the hosts file on your client machine?

this is what i use in my docker dev env

user user;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 768;
}

http {
    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;
    client_max_body_size 200m;

    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    access_log /home/user/logs/nginx-access.log;
    error_log /home/user/logs/nginx-error.log;

    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

daemon off;

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    server_name ~^(.*\.)?(?<domain>.+)\.localhost$;

    root /var/www/$domain/public;

    index index.php index.html;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   unix:/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

and you probably want php packages from this repository

add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php

Hi @burlresearch,

I've got the php7.2-fpm in place, but it doesn't seem to be doing anything right now. I've set the /etc/hosts on my client machine, but it's just downloading the artisan file as well. Same thing as when I hit the server IP.

@keevitaja - thanks for your answer - I don't have any fastcgi in my config, I"ll have to give that a shot.

Thanks to everybody for their help on this - server side stuff is definitely not my forte, and it's making me appreciate Forge so much more!

Shawn

I realized I was wrong above - the file it's downloading is the index.php file from the public directory.

The server was created for me, and I was given non-root access (I've got to use sudo to do anything in it).

Could this whole thing be a permissions issue?

I've set the laravel application folder to 755.

This is my server conf file:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
  listen [::]:80 default_server;

  server_name myprettyurl.com;
  root /var/www/mysite/public;
  index index.html index.htm index.php;

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

    error_log  /var/log/nginx/default-error.log error;

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.{
        deny all;
    }
}

That's in my /etc/nginx/sites-enabled and /etc/nginx/sites-available directories

I've got php7.2-fpm installed, as well.

This is all so frustrating - it's getting to the index.php page, but just forcing download instead of rendering.

Thanks for any additional insight!

Okay - looks like a lot of this was me being stupid.

I think I was forgetting to symlink the available-sites file correctly to enabled-sites, and didn't have the correct permissions in place.

Anyway - thanks so much for helping put me on the right path all!

Shawn