Nginx troubles

[JesterP]

Hi all,

My sincerest apologies if this is not the correct place to ask this question.

My webserver is NginX, and I am running vb 4.1.11 pl1.

Vaultwiki runs just fine if I don't enable "simplify wiki links". Once enabled I get the nginx 404 error page. It would appear that the server does not like /forums/showwiki/.

I added the same rewrite rules found in another post here: https://www.vaultwiki.org/threads/4689/ These rewrites don't seem to be doing anything.

#
# VaultWiki Rewrite
#

if (!-e $request_filename) {
         rewrite ^/wiki.php$ /showwiki.php last;
         rewrite ^/wiki$ /wiki/ permanent;
         rewrite ^/wiki/(?:(default)/(.*)?)?$ /showwiki_proxy.php last;
}

Ideally I would like my urls to be formatted like my other wiki (mediawiki): domain.com/wiki/Main_Page or domain.com/wiki/Category:Instances but initially I would be happy to just have simple links working.

Can anyone offer insight as to why I cannot use simple links?

Thank you!!

[pegasus]

I think I PMed this to you a while back, but we don't use the rules in that thread. They were based on instructions about vBSEO rewrites for nginx, which it turned out didn't work either when we switched to nginx ourselves.

Instead, this is what you should use, adjusted for your value "showwiki" and your root /forums/:

	location /forums/ {
		rewrite ^/forums/showwiki/?.* /forums/showwiki_proxy.php;
	}

If you also use vBSEO, you need to use different rules than they give you, since they don't work properly.

If you want the wiki to be /wiki/ and not /forums/showwiki/:

	location ~ /forums/wiki\.php$ {
		rewrite ^ /forums/showwiki.php;
	}

	location /wiki/ {
		rewrite ^/wiki/?.* /forums/showwiki_proxy.php;
	}

And you need to change your Wiki Base URL:

http://www.domain.com

and Wiki File Name = "wiki"

[JesterP]

I think I PMed this to you a while back, but we don't use the rules in that thread. They were based on instructions about vBSEO rewrites for nginx, which it turned out didn't work either when we switched to nginx ourselves.

Instead, this is what you should use, adjusted for your value "showwiki" and your root /forums/:

	location /forums/ {
		rewrite ^/forums/showwiki/?.* /forums/showwiki_proxy.php;
	}

If you also use vBSEO, you need to use different rules than they give you, since they don't work properly.

If you want the wiki to be /wiki/ and not /forums/showwiki/:

	location ~ /forums/wiki\.php$ {
		rewrite ^ /forums/showwiki.php;
	}

	location /wiki/ {
		rewrite ^/wiki/?.* /forums/showwiki_proxy.php;
	}

And you need to change your Wiki Base URL:

http://www.domain.com

and Wiki File Name = "wiki"

Thank you, I got it working with this. You provided via PM the same example I referenced. I noticed that I get the Special:SpecialPages now but when I click default, I still get the ugly forum php url. Shouldn't it be Defaultefault or something similar.

Thanks again for the help!!

Now I need to wrap my head around the forum/wiki relationship. Is each namespace a forum?

[JesterP]

I'm all set on the rewrites, so this thread is probably done. Thank you for the help!