Question URL rewriting not working with nginx

[Oldiesmann]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 22.04

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk Obsidian 18.0.67 Update #3

The forum software I use has an addon that rewrites URLs, and will automatically generate the appropriate nginx rules as well as writing a .htaccess file. However, when I paste the rules into the "additional directives for nginx" thing and save it, I still get 404 errors for everything when using nginx alone. I've tried restarting nginx but that doesn't change anything. Right now I'm doing this on a test site to avoid breaking anything important, but I'd like to have this work if possible.

 

[scsa20]

What forum software are you using and want is the rules you're using?

Also is proxy mode enabled? If proxy mode is enabled you're basically using Apache which would also depend if how you have PHP configured (FPM application served by nginx, FPM application served by Apache, or FastCGI served by Apache) so double check how those are configured as well.

 

[Oldiesmann]

It's SMF and these are the rules the addon generates. The mod works fine when proxy mode is enabled regardless of the PHP configuration since it doesn't rewrite URLs for static files. This only happens when proxy mode is disabled and PHP is served by nginx.

# Rules for: profiles
rewrite ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ "/index.php?pretty;action=profile;user=$1" last;

# Rules for: boards
rewrite ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&board=$1.0" last;
rewrite ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([0-9]*)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&board=$1.$2" last;

# Rules for: topics
rewrite ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&board=$1&topic=$2.0" last;
rewrite ^([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([-_!~*'()$a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([0-9]*|msg[0-9]*|new)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&board=$1&topic=$2.$3" last;

# Rules for: actions
rewrite ^(agreement|acceptagreement|activate|admin|announce|attachapprove|buddy|calendar)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(clock|coppa|credits|deletemsg|dlattach|editpoll|editpoll2|findmember)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(groups|help|helpadmin|jsmodify|jsoption|likes|lock|lockvoting)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(login|login2|logintfa|logout|markasread|mergetopics|mlist|moderate)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(modifycat|movetopic|movetopic2|notifyannouncements|notifyboard|notifytopic|pm|post)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(post2|printpage|profile|quotefast|quickmod|quickmod2|recent|reminder)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(removepoll|removetopic2|reporttm|requestmembers|restoretopic|search|search2|sendactivation)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(signup|signup2|smstats|suggest|splittopics|stats|sticky|theme)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(trackip|about:unknown|unread|unreadreplies|uploadAttach|verificationcode|viewprofile|vote)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;
rewrite ^(viewquery|viewsmfile|who|\.xml|xmlhttp|forum)/?$ "/index.php?pretty&action=$1" last;

 

[scsa20]

So I did a few tests, I was able to somewhat work but other things gets broken and when I checked the admin log in SMF it shows there are some undefined array so I'm thinking this is more of whatever that prettyurl plugin is trying to do is broken.

The rules that kinda worked you can find in the first post of pretty urls + nginx - SOLVED

My suggestion is to reach out to the developer of that pretty url addon to see what they say though.

 

[Oldiesmann]

Playing with this some more tonight...

Either the rules are broken completely (which doesn't seem to be the case, as someone else suggested moving the rewrite rules for actions before the rewrite rules for boards, as it will break things otherwise) or it seems Plesk is completely ignoring the "addditional nginx redirectives" section.

I have a board called "General Discussion". When I try to view it with URL rewriting enabled I get a 404 error. When viewing the logs, I see this...

3699320#0: *2508213 "/var/www/vhosts/.../general-discussion/index.html" is not found (2: No such file or directory)

I see similar things for profiles (".../profile/<user>/index.html" is not found) and actions.

Am I missing a setting somewhere?