Getting page not found error

inxeption_dev

I am running the automad in nginx everything works except I can't edit content. I am getting "libs.min.js?v=1.2.3:4 POST https://buzz.inxeption.com/dashboard?ajax=inpage_edit 404 (Not Found)" error when trying to edit in page and in the dashboard. It is because the rewrite rule is not correct? Any help on that would be appreciated. Thanks.

mad

inxeption_dev

Hi, without seeing your Nginx configuration it is difficult to tell. But yes, I think you have a rewrite issue here. Did you check the Nginx guide in the docs? Does it work on Apache?

inxeption_dev

mad It works great on the apache. I am using xampp locally to run it and there were no configuration needed. Unfortunately for the actual production environment, I have to use nginx.

Here's my server configuration. I changed the values for server names to abc.def.com.
I have look at the documentation for nginx but it didn't help me. In the try_files, I read from this forum that I have to add the ? between "index.php" and "$request_uri" and that helped to make the dashboard page work, but once I login nothing else works.

server {
if ($host = abc.def.com) {
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
listen 80 default_server;
root /var/www/html/automad/;
server_name abc.def.com

}

server {
server_name abc.def.com;
ssl on;
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/abc.def.com.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/abc.def.com.key;

root /var/www/html/automad/;
index index.php index.html;

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$request_uri;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
}

}

mad

inxeption_dev

I see. Ok could you try to comment or leave out the first server block (just for testing) and in the second one you change the try_files line from index.php?$request_uri to index.php$is_args$args without the ? (is added by $is_args). Let’s see if that helps.

And I assume the root path to your site is correct and all files are complete.

inxeption_dev

mad Thanks. I will give that a try and see if it work tomorrow and report back. Thanks!

inxeption_dev

mad Oh Real quick question, "SCRIPT_FILENAME" is this suppose to be a variable? Do I need to supply a file path to the script file?

mad

inxeption_dev

Cool! ??

mad

inxeption_dev No, you don’t have to. That variable is handled by the server. ?

inxeption_dev

No luck, if I changed it to $is_args$args, the dashboard is not working now. Any other suggestions? Could folder permission cause issue?

mad

inxeption_dev Hey, that are bad news. It is difficult to help here since I can't see your server's configuration. I just know that it should not be a problem to run it on Nginx. There are also quite some tutorials in the web about running Automad on Nginx. However, permissions should be set to enable PHP to write to the installation directory and its subdirectories. But that depends on your production environment. There is unfortunately no general rule for that.

Are the other pages working fine? Did you maybe just disabled the dashboard?

inxeption_dev

mad I check the permission of the automad folder, php has writing read permission. Dashboard works, but any page within the dashboard is not working. I can't edit content, I can't change settings, etc.

mad

inxeption_dev Ah ok. If the dashboard landing page works but not the other dashboard pages then you have an issue with the query string not beeing passed to PHP. It looks like Nginx doesn’t define all required environment variables to be used by PHP. Please try the snippet of the nginx.conf from the getting started page in the docs.

inxeption_dev

mad I have tried that. I have the below setting. The difference is I don't have fastcgi_index index.php; but I added include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;. Everything else seems to be the same. What do you think? The try_files example there doesn't work at all. It won't even let me go to dashboard if I use that.

location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}

mad

inxeption_dev Hi, that is not the configuration described in the docs. Are the other pages working? That is very important to know. It is also important to know what „not working“ means. Is there an error message? Could you please elaborate more on the error and provide the full nginx.conf? Thank you!

inxeption_dev

What works:
- I can go to all the pages defined in the dashboard. I developed theme and setup all the pages locally then upload them to the server.
- All the page links works.
- I can go to /dashboard and login and see the dashboard.

What doesn't work:
- Once I logged in, on the dashboard page, I am getting a lot of 404 error in the browser console. Anything has https://buzz.inxeption.com/dashboard?ajax= will give me the error. See screenshot.
![404 errors][1]
- On dashboard page, the the top row where it should say cache setting, debugg setting and update buttons are stuck in loading, see screenshot below.
dashboard modules stuck in loading
- Go to any page and try to edit them will give you a page not found error.
- If you are logged in and you go to a page and try the edit in page, it'll give a page not found error there as well.

In fastcgi_params, we have

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_SCHEME     $scheme;
fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

In fastcgi.confi, we have

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_SCHEME     $scheme;
fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

In the nginx.conf, we have

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
}

 http {
         server_tokens off;
         add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
         add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
         add_header "X-XSS-Protection" "1; mode=block";
         add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https: wss:; script-src 'self' 
 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https: wss:; img-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval' https: wss: * data:";
         add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=31536000;

         sendfile on;
         tcp_nopush on;
         tcp_nodelay on;
         keepalive_timeout 65;
         types_hash_max_size 2048;
         include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
         default_type application/octet-stream;

         ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
         ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
         access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
         error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

         gzip on;
         gzip_disable "msie6";
         gzip_vary on;
         gzip_proxied any;
         gzip_comp_level 6;
         gzip_buffers 16 8k;
         gzip_http_version 1.1;
         gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml 
 application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/x-font-ttf 
 font/opentype image/svg+xml image/x-icon;

         include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
         include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
 }

Then in the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled, we have:

ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;

server {
    if ($host = abc.def.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
    listen 80 default_server;
    root /var/www/html/automad/;
    server_name abc.def.com;
}

server {
    server_name abc.def.com;
    ssl on;
    listen 443 ssl;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/def.com-com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/def-com.key;

    root /var/www/html/automad/;
    index index.php index.html;
    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$request_uri;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

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mad

inxeption_dev Ok. But that is not the config from the docs. I think there is a mistake in the try_files line. Please try this instead:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

And don‘t add a ? after index.php. The config you have doesn’t provide a valid query string as I wrote before already.

inxeption_dev

mad You are absolutely correct, the try_files need to be like what you documented. I think the problem is we have a include for the snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; and a include for the /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; and missing the fastcgi_index index.php.

So in our case, the correct configuration is

ssl_stapling on;
ssl_stapling_verify on;

server {
    if ($host = abc.def.com) {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
    listen 80 default_server;
    root /var/www/html/automad/;
    server_name abc.def.com;
}

server {
    server_name abc.def.com;
    ssl on;
    listen 443 ssl;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/def-com.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/def-com.key;

    root /var/www/html/automad/;
    index index.php index.html;
    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass    unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include         fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

mad

inxeption_dev Cool, does it all work now for you?

inxeption_dev

mad Yes, everything is working. ?