Xenforo How to enable Xenforo friendly url?

Xenforo says to do this to enable friendly url:

Options - XenForo 2 Manual

My conf file looks like this:

---

Code:

# Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide
# must read http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html

# redirect from non-www to www
# uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
# if unsure use return 302 before using return 301
server {
            listen   80;
            server_name www.mysite.com;
            return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri;
       }

server {
 
  server_name mysite.com;

# ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;

  #add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
  #add_header X-Xss-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
  #add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
  #add_header Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin";

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/log/access.log combined buffer=256k flush=5m;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/log/error.log;

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/autoprotect/mysite.com/autoprotect-mysite.com.conf;
  root /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public;
  # uncomment cloudflare.conf include if using cloudflare for
  # server and/or vhost site
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/cloudflare.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-main.conf;

  location / {
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-only.conf;

  # block common exploits, sql injections etc
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/block.conf;

  # Enables directory listings when index file not found
  #autoindex  on;

  # Shows file listing times as local time
  #autoindex_localtime on;

  # Wordpress Permalinks example
  #try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;

 
    try_files $uri $uri/ /xf/index.php?$uri&$args;
    index index.php index.html;
 
    location /install/data/ {
        internal;
    }
    location /install/templates/ {
        internal;
    }
    location /internal_data/ {
        internal;
    }
    location /library/ { #legacy
        internal;
    }
    location /src/ {
        internal;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include         fastcgi_params;
    }
  }

 
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
 
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_server.conf;
}

Yet it doesn't work. I don't have SSL or https (wouldn't know hot to setup these). Can someone help me out, please? What do I have to change?

 

Can't you just tell me what I am missing?
Your linkings have hundreds of codes and I can't understand all of them.

 

I have read those stuff, but I can't figure out what I am doing wrong.
I don't have multiple location commands, or missing the server block.
All looks like it should be:

Code:

# Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide
# must read http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html

# redirect from non-www to www
# uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
# if unsure use return 302 before using return 301
server {
            listen   80;
            server_name www.mysite.com;
            return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri;
       }

server {
 
  server_name mysite.com;

# ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;

  #add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
  #add_header X-Xss-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
  #add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
  #add_header Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin";

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/log/access.log combined buffer=256k flush=5m;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/log/error.log;

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/autoprotect/mysite.com/autoprotect-mysite.com.conf;
  root /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public;
  # uncomment cloudflare.conf include if using cloudflare for
  # server and/or vhost site
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/cloudflare.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-main.conf;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public/index.php?$uri&$args;
    index index.php index.html;
  }
 
location /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public/install/data/ {
    internal;
}
location /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public/install/templates/ {
    internal;
}
location /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public/internal_data/ {
    internal;
}
location /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public/library/ { #legacy
    internal;
}
location /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public/src/ {
    internal;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include         fastcgi_params;
}
 
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
 
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_server.conf;
}

Please, this is making me crazy. What am I missing?

I also did those in the guide with my domain:

Code:

touch /home/nginx/domains/newdomain.com/public/library/.autoprotect-bypass
touch /home/nginx/domains/newdomain.com/public/internal_data/.autoprotect-bypass
touch /home/nginx/domains/newdomain.com/public/install/data/.autoprotect-bypass
touch /home/nginx/domains/newdomain.com/public/install/templates/.autoprotect-bypass

 

Look at my first message, I did before without full path (although the XF manual says we should put full path), it didnt work so I thought giving full path will help. No, doesnt matter, none worked.

And I finally got it to work.
So, @eva2000 from your vhost generator, you should maybe delete the duplicate generated one:

Code:

# xenforo 2 uncomment / remove hash from next 3 lines
#location /src/ {
#     internal;
#}

# xenforo 2 uncomment / remove hash from next 3 lines
#location /src/ {
#     internal;
#}

As I automatically uncommented without noticing that "src" is duplicate, and this was one of the reason why it didnt work.
2nd thing is, your generator doesn't consider if I have www redirect to non-www. Also one problem.

And before all the generated vhost files, I think the problem is that the XF manual considerably says different things than the centminmod manual (which should be updated for xf2 btw, that was one other reason).

For the record, for ppl who have the same issues, here is the final outcome, I removed the protection for admin.php btw:

Code:

# Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide
# must read http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html

# redirect from non-www to www
# uncomment, save file and restart Nginx to enable
# if unsure use return 302 before using return 301
server {
            listen   80;
            server_name www.mysite.com;
            return 301 $scheme://mysite.com$request_uri;
       }

server {
  server_name mysite.com;

# ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;

  #add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
  #add_header X-Xss-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
  #add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/log/access.log combined buffer=256k flush=5m;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/log/error.log;

  root /home/nginx/domains/mysite.com/public;

location / {
     index index.php index.html index.htm;
     try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
}

location /install/data/ {
     internal;
}

location /install/templates/ {
     internal;
}

location /internal_data/ {
     internal;
}

location /library/ {
     internal;
}

location /src/ {
     internal;
}



  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_server.conf;
}

Thank you very much, nevertheless @eva2000 !

 

Damn, how did I miss that? You are right, it made me crazy why it didn't work in first place.
I blame the official xf manual for adding those prefixes. In that case I think I didn't miss it but I thought it might be needed for correct redirecting. Like kind of an internal xf thing to address it correctly, but it is actually just a plain path prefix.

I think today I've grown 100 more gray hairs, but all good now, thank you very much.
I hope people with same problems will learn from this, as now they should know what exactly can make problems.