vBulletin vBulletin 3.x nginx configuration ?

OK ... this is *almost* a duplicate of my introduction post ...

I found CentminMod when I was doing searches trying to get ffmpeg-php working ... after a huge amount of research with no success, I finally tried (I think it was the first build of) CentminMod 123.09Beta01 ...

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Apparently that first build of the new Beta works! : I was able to get everything installed correctly, INCLUDING the elusive ffmpeg-php ... however :

I am running VBulletin versiion 3.8.4 PL2, which, according to VBulletin.Com, does NOT support Nginx; only VB versions 5.0.4 appear to support Nginx at all : vBulletin Manual - Using vBulletin with NGINX ... maybe I can configure Apache to use the current PHP-FPM configuration with FFMPEG-PHP working? If so, please tell me what I need to change to make Apache use the new, awesome, all-inclusive PHP settings that Nginx now enjoys via CentminMod!

Thanks so much for this awesome set of scripts and the support you provide online!

VIP

 

Thanks for the speedy reply ...

However, 1. I am not even using VBulletin 5.x, I'm using 3.8 ... did too much work on styles and other stuff in 3.8 (and paid too much money) to upgrade VBulletin now ... and 2. I'm using CentOS 32bit ... it looks there are not even any plans to include 32-bit installations in the Beta Apache/CentminMod project ... I'm not even asking for built-in RPMs, I was just hoping for a simple fix, i.e. manually editing some files to make Apache use the current PHP configuration which includes FFMPEG-PHP ... anyone have any suggestions? 3. CentMAP? Is that still available? Maybe that should be my solution! ??

I would hate to waste the last several weeks of work on this including CentminMod installation ...

VIP

 

This is good, but ... what kind of manual elbow work? Anyone here care to help? Would it be just some modifications of config files or what? How much do you charge for help with this?

VIP

 

Thanks a lot for the effort; I tried creating a virtual host (although I'm only connecting via localhost), substituting "domain.com" with "localhost". ... tried restarting Nginx and PHP-FPM. I also had to create a symlink again to an external hard drive, because one very important script I use can only have one document root, and I want the most possible storage space for videos, etc. so I use an external 4 TB drive as my SATA on the motherboard only supports up to 2 TB ... and for the life of me, I could not figure out (even with lots of web searching) any way to get Nginx to use the external hard disk drive for document root ... :

ln -s /mnt/4tbhome/www/html /home/nginx/domains/localhost/public
service nginx restart
fpmrestart

but all that got me was a "404 Not Found", even though the directory and files are there .... I have no idea why. Nginx may be faster, but it is sure a pain to configure correctly compared with Apache ... I don't know what is wrong or what to do now.

Anyone have any ideas?

VIP

P.S. : I can't even afford 2-digit prices right now really ... and my own mom and dad went through a quad bypass and everything went well ...

 

Yes, already fixed the webroot path before I got the 404 error ... have no idea what is wrong now.

VIP

 

OK, looking into the log files now :

access.log is empty ...
error.log seems to be showing me that it doesn't like the fact I renamed the /public directory so I could create a substitute symlink to the external HDD ... it keeps looking for /public/maintenance.html .... I really need a *real* way to use the external HDD for document root ... otherwise, I will have to copy all the files in my recently-renamed /public folder to the actual, symlinked external HDD document root folder ?

NOTE : for whatever reason, clicking on "Use BB Code Editor" does NOT show any clickable BBCodes, so I clicked the button and had to enter CODE and /CODE manually ... I did search for the CODE tag ... I am still used to VBulletin (3.8.x) :

error.log :

Code:

2016/05/05 19:28:38 [error] 13746#13746: *1 open() "/home/nginx/domains/localhost/public/maintenance.html" failed (2: No such file or directory) while sending to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "localhost"
2016/05/05 19:28:39 [error] 13746#13746: *1 open() "/home/nginx/domains/localhost/public/maintenance.html" failed (2: No such file or directory) while sending to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "localhost"
2016/05/05 19:29:04 [error] 13746#13746: *4 open() "/home/nginx/domains/localhost/public/maintenance.html" failed (2: No such file or directory) while sending to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "localhost"
2016/05/05 19:29:05 [error] 13746#13746: *4 open() "/home/nginx/domains/localhost/public/maintenance.html" failed (2: No such file or directory) while sending to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "localhost"
2016/05/05 19:37:38 [error] 13748#13748: *7 open() "/home/nginx/domains/localhost/public/maintenance.html" failed (2: No such file or directory) while sending to client, client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:9000", host: "localhost"

... here is my localhost.conf file :

Code:

# Centmin Mod Getting Started Guide
# must read [URL='http://centminmod.com/getstarted.html']Getting Started Guide - CentminMod.com LEMP Nginx web stack for CentOS[/URL]

# 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 localhost;
#  return 301 $scheme://localhost$request_uri;
#  }

server {
  server_name localhost localhost.localdomain;

# 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  X-Robots-Tag "noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive";

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/localhost/log/access.log combined buffer=256k flush=60m;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/localhost/log/error.log;

  root /home/nginx/domains/localhost/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;

  # prevent access to ./directories and files
#  location ~ (?:^|/)\. {
#  deny all;
#  }

location ~ /archive {
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
  rewrite ^/archive/index.php/t-([0-9]+)\.html /archive/index.php?t-$1.html last;
  rewrite ^/archive/index.php/f-([0-9]+)\.html /archive/index.php?f-$1.html last;
}

location / {
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-only.conf;
  try_files  $uri $uri/ /index.php;

}

  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;
}

VIP

 

Obviously I did not understand what you meant by "try removing *them*" ... thought you meant the
503include-main.conf and 503include-only.conf files ... not sure where to make this edit : nginx.conf isn't it apparently : it's still looking for those files (I only renamed them, now renaming them back) ...

VIP

 

OK, sorry for my stupidity ... I did delete those two include lines and don't get a 404 anymore ... but I am back to my other problem (which I have not mentioned yet) which is that for whatever reason, despite the fact that I have just (from the commandline) restored an SQL database I know to work (and have checked the contents just by eye using Adminer ... [I gave up using PHPMyAdmin due to its many funky pecularities for now] and everything seems to be fine in the database ... all tables appear to be there ... BUT : I keep getting a "Database Error" with no details included when hitting http://localhost ... instead of seeing my VB homepage. Checking /var/log/mysqld.log I see no obvious errors ... same with the Nginx log ... I won't paste it unless asked, to save space here though. Still not sure what to do ... what's strange is that if I stop Nginx, then start Apache, I have the same problem, "Database Error", even though before installing CentminMod I was able to serve these pages using Apache, using the exact same database SQL file, with no database error.

VIP

 

I'm using 3.8.4 PL2 but I have patched it (hopefully correctly) to be able to use PHP 5.5 to 5.6 ...

VIP

 

Checked PHP-FPM error log ... all I get is this :

Code:

[05-May-2016 14:10:27 UTC] PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method vBulletinHook::init() should not be called statically in /mnt/4tbhome/www/html/install/init.php on line 212
[05-May-2016 14:10:27 UTC] PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method vBulletinHook::fetch_hook() should not be called statically in /mnt/4tbhome/www/html/includes/adminfunctions.php on line 399
[05-May-2016 14:10:27 UTC] PHP Strict Standards:  Non-static method vBulletinHook::init() should not be called statically in /mnt/4tbhome/www/html/includes/class_hook.php on line 118

I have read all about how to suppress PHP errors but none of the methods I have read about actually work. Still do not know what to do.

VIP