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Hi all,

Newbie here.

I am running Concrete5 (8.4.0) on Debian Stretch and am able to work with it just fine when I connect to it via a SSH tunnel. I would however like to run Concrete5 behind a nginx proxy on the Internet. With Concrete5 behind a nginx proxy, I am unable to install it as it gets stuck on "Concrete5 cannot parse the PATH_INFO or ORIG_PATH_INFO information provided by your server".

The current nginx config reads:

server {
        # SSL configuration
        listen                          443 ssl;
        listen                          [::]:443 ssl;
        server_name                     www.<domain>;
        ssl                             on;
        ssl_session_cache               builtin:1000 shared:SSL:10m;
        ssl_ciphers                     HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!CAMELLIA:!DES:!MD5:!PSK:!RC4;
        ssl_certificate                 /etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain>/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key             /etc/letsencrypt/live/<domain>/privkey.pem;
        ssl_protocols                   TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers       on;
        access_log                      /var/log/nginx/www.<domain>-access.log;
        error_log                       /var/log/nginx/www.<domain>-error.log;
        location / {
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I tried various things I found in the forum and on the web, such as changing index.php as follows:

<?php
$_SERVER["PATH_INFO"] = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
require 'concrete/dispatcher.php';


and adding the following to the location / section:

fastcgi_param           PATH_INFO               $request_uri;


Any suggestions?

kind regards,
Jan
 
monkee replied on at Permalink Reply
2020 - Still impossible to run https concrete5 behind a NGINX reverse Proxy.
gocabraless replied on at Permalink Reply
gocabraless
Hi, I was in a situation like you.
First: you need a big coup of excellent coffee
Two:https://github.com/chobits/ngx_http_proxy_connect_module...
read the content, download the master, unzip an apply (patch -p1 < patch_file)
the correct patch to your nginx source tree
Three: use gcc11 and llvm11 and setup the correct environment variables
Four: download source, decompress and make available openssl 1.1.1i
to the nginx config settings
Once you correctly select your options for the environment you're trying to
setup, run nginx ./configure -.-.-.- include the module path, openssl, and voile!
you got it, an ssl reverse proxy correctly running.

Of course, add to index.php
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO']) && $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO'] == 'https'){
$_SERVER['HTTPS']='on';
}
Cahueya replied on at Permalink Reply
Of course this is possible and here's a very detailed tutorial on how to do it:

https://mlocati.github.io/articles/nginx-apache-concrete5.html...

I run many sites with proxy.