Redirect Loop on Vanilla 3.3 / Nginx

bandwidthoracle · May 2021

Hello,

I am trying to set up vanilla for the first time and I think I might be in over my head. I followed the guide here, but when I visit it in my web browser I get in a 302 redirect loop to /dashboard/setup.

I am not quite sure I might be doing different, as far as I can tell my nginx configuration matches the nginx configuration provided. I am happy to post any information that would help.

Bleistivt · May 2021

Please post your nginx configuration and the path where your forums index.php is.

R_J · May 2021

Here's my working nginx configuration and as you can see, I tried several things before I got it working. The unforeseen error I faced was that adding RewriteUrls = true to the config. The config below was enough to have pretty urls right from the start

server {
       listen 80;
       server_name develop.vanilla.loc;

       root /home/rj/Develop/www/vanilla/develop;

   index index.php;

   # Block some folders as an extra hardening measure.
   location ~* /\.git { deny all; return 403; }
   location /build/ { deny all; return 403; }
   location /cache/ { deny all; return 403; }
   location /cgi-bin/ { deny all; return 403; }
   location /uploads/import/ { deny all; return 403; }
   location /conf/ { deny all; return 403; }
   location /tests/ { deny all; return 403; }
   location /vendor/ { deny all; return 403; }

   # This handles all the main requests thru index.php.
   location ~* ^/index\.php(/|$) {
       # send to fastcgi
       include fastcgi.conf;
       # fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php;
       # fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root/index.php;

fastcgi_split_path_info      ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
# fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/php$fastcgi_script_name;
# fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php;
       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php;
       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root/index.php;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO      $fastcgi_path_info;

       fastcgi_param X_REWRITE 1;
               fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
   }
   # If this is some other PHP script, disallow it by redirecting to /index.php
   location ~* \.php(/|$) {
       rewrite ^ /index.php$uri last;
   }

   # Default path handling
   location / {
       try_files $uri @vanilla;
   }

   location @vanilla {
       rewrite ^ /index.php$uri last;
   }

}

Redirect Loop on Vanilla 3.3 / Nginx

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