Php7 + nginx + vb 5.3

[r5a]

Hey,

PHP version: 7.0.18
nginx 1.10.3
Ubuntu 16.04
VB 5.3.1

I cannot get the installer to run. Bascially index.php tells me

Configuration: includes/config.php does not exist. For a new install click here to create a new config.inc.php
but it reloads the page and adds the same path to the URL infinitely.

so for instance I click that
and the URL goes to

http://domain.com/core/install/makeconfig.php

click it again and it goes
http://domain.com/core/install/core/install/makeconfig.php

and so on
http://domain.com/core/install/core/install/core/install/makeconfig.php

Here is my vhost config, it's basically the php7.vhost file that came with the download package.

# VB Forum

server {
    server_name mydomain; 

    listen 8070;

    root /var/www/mydomain/www;

    access_log /var/www/mydomain/logs/access.log combined;
    error_log /var/www/mydomain/logs/error.log warn;

    index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    # VB configuration rules
        # legacy css being handled separate for performance
        location = /css\.php {
                rewrite ^ /core/css.php break;
        }

        # make install available from presentation
        location ^~ /install {
                rewrite ^/install/ /core/install/ break;
        }

        # any request to not existing item gets redirected through routestring
        location / {
                if (!-f $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?routestring=$1 last;
                }
        }

        # make admincp available from presentation
        location ^~ /admincp {
                if (!-f $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/admincp/(.*)$ /index.php?routestring=admincp/$1 last;
                }
        }

        # process any php scripts, not found gets redirected through routestring
        location ~ \.php$ {
                # handles legacy scripts
                if (!-f $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?routestring=$1 break;
                }

                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_pass phpfastcgi;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
                fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
                fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
                fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
                fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
                fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off;
                fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
                fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
                fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
                fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
                fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
                fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
        }
}

upstream phpfastcgi {
    # address to accept FastCGI requests. Make sure you set the right value under your fast cgi conf.
    server    unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}

[r5a]

I installed Apache and tested it there, seemed to be doing the same behavior so I blew away the
/var/www/mydomain/www folder and reuploaded everything. seems to have fixed it.

[Wayne Luke]

If you have a problem with makeconfig.php, the best thing to do is manually edit the config.php files as stated in the vb5readme.html file.