Xenforo Xenforo friendly URLS 404 errors + general questions

I've tried adjusting my config many times following the rewrite guides on here but I'm confused. When I enable the friendly urls option in Xenforo I just get 404s. I'm kind of desperate at this point as I've literally tried 100 different things. Below is my non ssl nginx config. I don't understand what is wrong as I literally copied it from the centmin guides. I edited out my domain name for privacy purposes.

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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 xx.net;
            return 301 $scheme://www.xx.net$request_uri;
       }

server {
 
  server_name xx.net www.xx.net;

# 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";
  #add_header Feature-Policy "accelerometer 'none'; camera 'none'; geolocation 'none'; gyroscope 'none'; magnetometer 'none'; microphone 'none'; payment 'none'; usb 'none'";

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

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

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/autoprotect/xx.net/autoprotect-xx.net.conf;
  root /home/nginx/domains/xx.net/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 / {
     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;
}

#xenforo 2 uncomment / remove hash from next 3 lines
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;
}

Another thing I don't generally understand are the SSL certificates.. I basically just installed my website with menu option 2 without SSL then use cloudflare for ssl. Is this fine or do I need the SSL certificate stuff? I wish I would've seen this great thread: https://community.centminmod.com/th...on-centmin-mod-123-09beta01-lemp-stack.16060/ earlier as I could've just followed the steps.. Now I already have the site up and I'm stuck.

Can anyone help me out here? I was thinking of just following the steps here https://centminmod.com/vhost.php and enabling SSL with those steps but I'm worried ill brick my server..

What are the exact steps I should follow if I have already installed my forum with menu option 2, have cloudflare for SSL and want to enable friendly urls + let's encrypt SSL. Is this even possible with cloudflare?

Also what would be the further steps to optimize as in the guide above? I'm just confused because I feel that I'm too dumb to figure this out without following a step by step guide. It really annoys me.

 

I hate being stupid like this.. It really irritates me that I have to ask to be spoonfed but I just really can't figure this out. I've tried for weeks now.

 

Hi, thanks for the swift reply.. Is there any point in migrating to https on the server when already using cloudflare? Any benefits? Because I already envision myself wrecking my whole dedicated server config.. I haven't figured out how to backup yet and there's no snapshots since it's a dedicated.. Is following that guide safe? I mean of course it is but what's the chance of fucking something up?

I installed it on web root at domain.com, no sub folder. So I really don't understand why it doesn't work. I put in the rules, restarted nginx, then turned on friendly urls in Xenforo and immediately get 404 errors.. Is there anything wrong with my config file?

 

I will try to implement HTTPS later on a test server first, but what is realistically the chance of any issues if I simply follow your steps? Can't be that hard right?

I used a fresh install of XF 2.1 and imported from mybb 1.8. I followed your guide to chmod the correct files. It still doesn't work. I really don't get it.

 

I tried adding this, didn't work.

 

Hey guys, I managed to fix this issue. I had my cloudflare settings on SSL strict which made every page only grab the https config which I hadn't set up yet.. By moving it to flexible I was able to enable SEO urls successfully . Wooo!

One more question @eva2000, is it a problem enabling SEO links now with flexible ssl by cloudflare? Will there be an issue when I add the SSL certificate? Are the steps any different?

AKA I'm worried that now all the thread urls are SEO that when I switch to https and there are no rewrite rules this will be broken.. Is this a valid concern or irrelevant?