Cakephp 3 NGINX URL rewriting issue - cakephp

Question

I am trying to setup CakePHP 3 on Linux server CentOS 7 OS. I have created a project using composer and everything installs correctly with proper permissions. In my virtual host file I have configured config file according to official document
server {
listen 80;
server_name remote.inodd.com;
## redirect http to https ##
rewrite 301 https://$server_name$request_uri permanent;
#rewrite 301 https://$server_name$request_uri permanent;
}
server {
# listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name remote.inodd.com;
ssl_certificate /home/vhost/www/domain/ssl/self-ssl.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /home/vhost/www/domain/ssl/self-ssl.key;
# note that these lines are originally from the "location /" block
root /home/vhost/www/domain/public_html;
index index.php;
access_log /home/vhost/www/domain/logs/access_log;
error_log /home/vhost/www/domain/logs/error_log;
location / {
#try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?url=$request_uri;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
so when I browse the url https://remote.inodd.com/development/, I get default landing page showing status of cakephp configuration. Everything checks out normal even database connectivity. But I get below warning that rewriting is not configured correctly.
URL rewriting is not properly configured on your server.
1) Help me configure it
2) I don't / can't use URL rewriting
Not sure what else I am missing here as I am able to setup non-cakephp sites and they are working fine.

Answer 1

Got it working. Thanks to a great solution provided by Jamie.
Here is my final working code:
server {
listen 80;
server_name remote.inodd.com;
## redirect http to https ##
rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
}
server {
# listen 80;
listen 443 ssl;
server_name remote.inodd.com;
ssl_certificate /home/vhost/www/domain/ssl/self-ssl.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /home/vhost/www/domain/ssl/self-ssl.key;
access_log /home/vhost/www/domain/logs/access_log;
error_log /home/vhost/www/domain/logs/error_log;
location / {
root /home/vhost/www/domain/public_html/development/webroot;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-d $request_filename) {
break;
}
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}
location ~ .*\.php[345]?$ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
/home/vhost/www/domain/public_html/development/webroot$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

Answer 2

If your domain has a conf file in vhost then please add this line to your vhost domain.conf file.
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
rewrite ^/$ /app/webroot/ break;
rewrite ^(.*)$ /app/webroot/$1 break;
}
location /app/ {
rewrite ^/$ /webroot/ break;
rewrite ^(.*)$ /webroot/$1 break;
}
location /app/webroot/ {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php break;
}
}
The main problem is cakephp has 3 different htaccess,
first is the main dir of project
second one is in app folder
third is webroot folder.
So we have to handle all of this. I found a solution like that.