Plesk 11.5 + nginx = no .htaccess ?

[David Aguilar]

Hi,

I have plesk 11.5 , configured nginx to serve php files.

If I enable this option, a magento site can't process some rewrite rules. I suspect that this is because nginx can't read .htaccess files ?

If I turn off php process by php all is working right ( even with nginx's intelligent process + static files served by nginx )

 

[MisterU]

Yes, nginx+php-fpm does not process .htaccess files. So you need to setup custom nginx directives for your apps.

 

[Nikolay.]

Yup. nginx does not support .htaccess files for performance reasons.

Therefore some applications may not function properly in php-fpm mode. You may use a custom per-vhost nginx configuration (vhost_nginx.conf) as a workaround.

 

[MislavO]

Doesn't plesk like generate this new vhosts file every day? I didn't still try this with plesk but on other system without plesk where i run nginx i know when i setup once rewrites and everything in vhost I don't touch this. Not sure how this work with plesk, but yeah...if file get reseted to default outcome is obvious, no rewrites = application/website is not working. Any KB regarding this, I'm curious how Plesk handle this

 

[Nikolay.]

Nothing is regenerated "every day" without a reason to.

/var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/conf/vhost_nginx.conf is a custom file that you may create and then call
# plesk sbin httpdmng --reconfigure-all
and it will be included in Plesk 11.5 configuration for nginx. It will not be overwritten by Plesk (just like vhost.conf and vhost_ssl.conf for Apache).

 

[MislavO]

Awesome, I knew they probably take care of that (i'm on 11.0.9 so I didn't knew). This one is very nice.

Thanks Nikolay.

 

[David Aguilar]

Hi,

I think there's somehow a workaround, as nginx can "redirect" some files to apache, so you can combine apache to read .htaccess ( so make redirs of magento ) and nginx passing simply php code.

My problem now is that I turn on PHP-FPM but it's still processing as PHP-FastCGI

 

[Nikolay.]

My problem now is that I turn on PHP-FPM but it's still processing as PHP-FastCGI

What exactly is executed as FastCGI in your case? Any useful symptoms you can tell us? Maybe some weirdness in configs?

 

[Upgrade]

Yes, nginx+php-fpm does not process .htaccess files. So you need to setup custom nginx directives for your apps.

this is not true, I have a website where htaccess works and plesk is configured to use php-fpm, 3 items are all checked in the web server configuration settings.

Why continue to run apache2 and htaccess?