I performed a clean install on my VPS with nginx 1.6.2, Mysql and PHP5-fpm 5.5.12 but this is what I get:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/76254shjxg97y2a/Screenshot%202015-03-16%2004.43.27.png?dl=0
If I try to create the admin user clicking on Update profile nothing happens and the page reloads.
Hi Lorenzo,
it looks like slasharguments do not work on your server.
There is some user-contributed documentation here: https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Nginx#Slasharguments , it's a little chaotic but hopefully will be helpful. There are also links to other ngnix configurations advices.
(Please do not blindly copy-paste, some paths need to be replaced there)
Thanks for the reply, here's what I used:
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include /etc/nginx/conf/*.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
rewrite ^/(.*\.php)(/)(.*)$ /$1?file=/$3 last;
}
.. but result is still the same.
I forgot to report in the first post that the first time that I try to create the admin user I get the error Invalid Sesskey:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8i6l88309ruuynp/Screenshot%202015-03-16%2014.18.56.png?dl=0
So I also made sure session.auto_startwas set to 0 in php.ini. I even chmodded 777 my moodle and moodledata dirs just to be sure, nothing. They're owned by www-data (the user running the webserver). Nothing...
I can't find a way to disable slasharguments from config.php (as I can't access the panel)!
Try:
$CFG->slasharguments = false;
in your config.php file.
If Luis's advice fixes the symptoms, you need to find the way to set up your server to support slasharguments. Unfortunately I don't know much about ngnix myself so redirecting to the docs is all I can do.
The setting $CFG->slasharguments will be removed in 3.0, even now some core functionality will not work with it disabled. So it is strongly recommended to fix the server configuration and not disable it. Feel free to start new topic with the more explanatory header, something like "Configuring Nginx to work with slasharguments", this way you will attract the knowledgeable people.
Hi Lorenzo,
you should work at successfully configuring the PHP environment first and then try to deploy Moodle within that pretty environment.
IMHO it is helpful to have kind of test suite for checking the correct PATH_INFO support or a good rewrite rules support (to put the relative path info into the HTTP GET file parameter). You could find some examples in:
That being said, rewrite ^/(.*\.php)(/)(.*)$ /$1?file=/$3 last; means that nginx will internally rewrite PATH_INFO into the HTTP GET file parameter BUT only for those file w/o a PATH_INFO because of location ~ \.php$ that should be location ~ \.php(.*)$.
Besides it could be better to get rid of the redirect and to configure just PATH_INFO:
... location ~ ^(.+\.php)(.*)$ {
...
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
...
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/php$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; ...
Refs.: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_fastcgi_module.html#fastcgi_split_path_info.
It's a long time that I'd like to contribute a definitive guide to setup PHP in "RHEL/CentOS + SC + PHP-FPM", "nginx" and "lighttpd" envs but I didn't find the spare time yet - but I've a nice ESXi 5.5 based homelab waiting for that time .
HTH,
Matteo
