Xenforo Strange redirection and query stripping

I have two issues. I've got Xenforo 2 running on CMM.

I'm using friendly urls with the default setup defined by Xenforo for the friendly URLs on nginx:

Code:

    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;
    }

I have disabled the XF redirect addon because it doesn't work on nginx and they refuse to support it, after 6 months of begging them to fix it I've given up.

Xenforo support told me they do not provide support for nginx servers.

1) Strange redirection. I get about 400 of these errors every day

Code:

2020/03/05 18:07:45 [error] 1895#1895: *197 open()
"/home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public/threads/advertise.12108/styles/default/xenforo/reactions/emojione/sprite_sheet_emojione.png" failed (2: No such file or directory)
request:
"GET /threads/advertise.12108/styles/default/xenforo/reactions/emojione/sprite_sheet_emojione.png HTTP/1.1"

When they request /threads/advertise.12108

the file is located at
/styles/default/xenforo/reactions/emojione/sprite_sheet_emojione.png

What is causing it to append this to the end of the current friendly url?

I also get other weird redirects where it redirects to domain.com//

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2) Xenforo told me the addon doesn't work on my server because my server is "stripping querie strings". I had another issue with another addon from ThemeHouse and they told me it's not working because my server is "stripping querie strings".

So that's two groups telling me my server is stripping querie strings, how to I debug this issue? I have no idea what to do or what to investigate regarding this

 

Unfortunately neither issue is resolved by fixing that redundancy, but thank you

 

I figured out last night that Xenforo and Themehouse are full of shit, they are blaming my server for a problem with their software. It's not stripping queries, their software just doesn't work correctly.

 

/admin.php?reactions/

they were all listed as

'styles/default/xenforo/reactions/emojione/sprite_sheet_emojione.png'

 

I just don't understand why I'm getting ~400 of these errors everyday yet the site renders fine. it's not like I get the error everytime I refresh the page, it's like one in 100 visits triggers the error

and just to clarify, there is no error in the browser, only in the error log

 

Everyone is just telling me to ignore these 400 errors per day so I guess that's what I'm gonna do because I can't seem to stop it. My server doesn't generate these references anywhere. I thought it was an issue with the try_files directive but who knows. I already wasted too much time on this. Thank you for your assistance.

 

Just FYI these are not http errors, they are nginx errors, they have no effect on browsing, they are only server side errors, all the http requests work fine and the site works perfectly.

I gave up on this, I'm just gonna ignore it like everyone told me to