How to run Open Journal System (OJS) on Nginx
I just now saw your message on the OJS3 forum.
For NginX try this configuration
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)include forge-conf/evidenciaonojs.tk/before/*;server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name evidenciaonojs.tk; root /home/forge/evidenciaonojs.tk/; # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!) # ssl_certificate; # ssl_certificate_key; ssl_protocols TLSv1.2; ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem; add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"; add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"; index index.html index.htm index.php; charset utf-8; # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!) include forge-conf/evidenciaonojs.tk/server/*; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; } location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; } access_log off; error_log /var/log/nginx/evidenciaonojs.tk-error.log error; error_page 404 /index.php; location ~ ^(.+\.php)(.*)$ { set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$path_info; if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) { return 404; } include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; } location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* { deny all; }}# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)include forge-conf/evidenciaonojs.tk/after/*;Be sure to to set:
1. cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 in PHP-FPM (in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini probably).
2. security.limit_extensions = .php in your FPM pool config file (in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/your_site.conf)
3. disable_path_info = Off (in OJS config.inc.php)
Restart PHP-FPM and NginX services. Then, if it works, read about the evils of NginX IF and 'cgi.fix_pathinfo'.
Just con confirm that things that were useful in my case to run successfully OJS on Nginx (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS on a Digital Ocean account configured by Laravel Forge) included:
1) Modify cgi.fix_pathinfo=1 in PHP-FPM (in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/php.ini)
2) Uncomment (enable) security.limit_extensions = .php (in /etc/php/7.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf)
3) Changed disable_path_info = Off (in OJS config.inc.php).
4) Replace nginx config with:
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!) include forge-conf/evidenciaonojs.tk/before/*; server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name evidenciaonojs.tk; root /home/forge/evidenciaonojs.tk/; # FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!) # ssl_certificate; # ssl_certificate_key; ssl_protocols TLSv1.2; ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384; ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on; ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem; add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN"; add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block"; add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"; index index.html index.htm index.php; charset utf-8; # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!) include forge-conf/evidenciaonojs.tk/server/*; location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; } location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; } location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; } access_log off; error_log /var/log/nginx/evidenciaonojs.tk-error.log error; error_page 404 /index.php; location ~ ^(.+\.php)(.*)$ { set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$; fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info; fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $document_root$path_info; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; } location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* { deny all; } } # FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!) include forge-conf/evidenciaonojs.tk/after/*;5) And finally restart services (service php7.2-fpm restart AND sudo service nginx restart).