Nginx Server Block Not Redirecting Properly

Michael Griffith

4/16/24, 5:34 AM

I've just recently swapped over to nginx from apache2, and it seems to be handling load times much better. However, I've now lost access to my forum subdomain. Whenever I goto my forum's subdomain, it just redirects me to my site's root directory. I've enabled the site and made the link to the sites-available directory. Here's my current server block:

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name forum.project-freedom.net;
    root /var/www/forum;

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock;
    }
 }

My main websites directory is /var/www/html/

Upon checking my nginx error log, I've seen I got this error:

2023/04/16 05:26:20 [error] 45598#45598: *65 open() "/var/www/html/service_worker.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.70.34.128, server: _, request: "GET /service_worker.js HTTP/2.0", host: "forum.project-freedom.net">
2023/04/16 05:35:07 [error] 45598#45598: *257 open() "/var/www/html/service_worker.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.70.135.196, server: _, request: "GET /service_worker.js HTTP/2.0", host: "forum.project-freedom.ne>
2023/04/16 05:35:37 [error] 45598#45598: *258 "/var/www/html/project-freedom.net/index.php" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 162.158.78.139, server: _, request: "GET /project-freedom.net/ HTTP/2.0", host: "project-fr>
2023/04/16 05:42:20 [error] 45598#45598: *416 open() "/var/www/html/service_worker.js" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 172.70.38.15, server: _, request: "GET /service_worker.js HTTP/2.0", host: "forum.project-freedom.net">
2023/04/16 05:42:32 [notice] 46586#46586: signal process started
<dom.net", referrer: "https://forum.project-freedom.net/service_worker.js"

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Richard Smith

4/16/24, 9:05 AM

Nginx is not using that `server` block. It's using the one with the `server_name _;` statement (see the error log in your question). Use `nginx -T` (uppercase `T`) to view the entire configuration across all included files and ensure that the `server` block for `forum.project-freedom.net` appears.

Michael Griffith

4/16/24, 4:18 PM

I'm getting this reply when I do `nginx -T`: `nginx: [emerg] the size 52428800 of shared memory zone "SSL" conflicts with already declared size 10485760 in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/project-freedom.net:23 nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed`

Richard Smith

4/17/24, 9:22 AM

Nginx will not restart until you fix that fatal error. Without seeing the full output of `nginx -T` it is difficult to say where the error is. Edit your question and add further details.

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