Xenforo Xenforo 2.x Updated Nginx vhost configuration June 2022

On June 15, 2022 updated Xenforo 2.x Nginx configuration outlined here as it's been brought to my attention some Xenforo addons and Xenforo 2.x features may have issues with Centmin Mod's default /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf include file catching .js or .json extension routes meant for Xenforo 2.x. As such we can create a separate custom copy of /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf as /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles_xf.conf and use that instead via these 4 steps.

Step 1. copy /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf to /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles_xf.conf

Code (Text):

cp -a /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles_xf.conf

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Step 2. edit /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles_xf.conf and comment out the location context
# for .js/.json location ~* \.(js|json)$ {}

Code (Text):

  #  location ~* \.(js|json)$ {
  #add_header Pragma public;
  #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";
  #add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin *;
  #add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, immutable, stale-while-revalidate=86400, stale-if-error=604800";
  #      access_log off;
  #      expires 30d;
  #      break;
  #      }

Step 3. Then edit Nginx vhost switching to /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles_xf.conf include file and commenting out /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf

Code (Text):

  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles_xf.conf;

Step 4. Restart Nginx server

Code (Text):

ngxrestart

 

Apparently, in XF 2 there's POST requests for .json like view.json and XF 2 addon https://xenforo.com/community/resources/digitalpoint-better-google-analytics.8752/'s host locally the JS code runs into this - I see in that thread you had previous reported 404 not found for that addon's .js extension requests that need to be handled by XF 2 and not Nginx. The above changes, allow XF 2 to handle them.

 

Yeah that takes care of .js files but not .json files.

Thanks for the reminder! Need to update that too

edit: the vhost.php generator has been updated too