As far as I know nginx ignores the .htaccess files. Are there instructions anywhere for using Trongate with an nginx webserver?

Regards
Michael

Hi Michael, Nginx doesn't use .htaccess as that is for the Apache server. I am a little busy this morning but will repost a solution for you soon that was posted on the SCA forum by Tref.

Hi,
I am using nginx on all my projects and would really like to continue using it, preferably also with trongate. Seems I can't register on the SCA forum. Any chance of getting access to the nginx configuration anyway ... is it a secret ;) ?

-- update --

figured it out ... not special config, just make sure the root is pointing to the right (public) location of your app, for example for an app called "test"

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;

root /var/www/html/test/public;
index index.php index.html index.htm;

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

My nginx server block looks very similar. However, setting root to public directory means that the asset files in the modules directories above are inaccessible. Or am I wrong?

no secret blacky831, the SCA forum is for members of Speedcoding Academy. I had to close the forum to new users because I was getting so much spam.

The reason I haven't posted Tref's fix was because I could not get it to work with my Docker install of Nginx 1.20.2 stable via DevilBox. I'm always getting a 403 forbidden message, even with your suggestion above. Even tried chmod -R 755 ...

Here's Tref's post anyway - may or may not help:

"I thought this might be easy, but it's taken me ages to get it working. After the initial hurdle (getting NGINX and PHP working on Windows, not so bad actually) I tried about every combination I could to get this working. The default rewrite command try files actually almost worked for everything, but I wasn't getting the admin files to pass through, and after trying a couple of things and getting it working, I decided to move my app into a subdirectory, then I was essentially back to square one! I think I have it now though...

My config.php has my app as http://localhost/app/ so replace anything with those words in the below to suit requirements...

Here's the server object in the nginx.conf file

For the admin files, I've just done a straight rewrite which works well. I've got that higher than my /app directory, I'm not sure it makes a difference...

In location /app, I had to specify the root again, it says you shouldn't need to do this, but it didn't work without it. The root is using the location of my nginx.exe as a base so "root www" means "the www folder in the same dir as nginx", in Linux I guess you'd want to use a full path.

The try files command works well, I've not seen any issues yet, I just made a quick app with one module, I could enter new data and browse data etc. so all the url parameters seem to be working well. Hope this helps!

Thank you very much for sharing your solution.
It works for me. However, I will currently only use this configuration for local development purposes.