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• Ben

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  Hi,

  Sendy is not supported on Nginx. It's only supported on Apache as described in the FAQ on Sendy's website http://sendy.co/#faqs-buy.

  Or try using this Nginx configuration file by another Sendy user - https://gist.github.com/refringe/6545132

  Alternatively, I provide setup and installation of LAMP stack and Sendy on Amazon EC2 (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/) for $79.

  Amazon's 'micro' server with 613MB of RAM cost $0.013/hour ($9.5 per month). If you're a new AWS user, a free tier is available so you can use it free for 1 year. Also, the first 2,000 emails sent via SES each day that are invoked from an EC2 server are free as well.

  Just let me know if you wish to go with this.

  Thanks.

  Best regards,
  Ben
• mcbetz

  January 2015

  Thanks Ben,

  I know that it's not supported by default. That's why the standard FAQs and guidelines did not help. I used the Nginx configuration you're pointed towards, but that obviously was not the problem. Maybe someone else who is using Nginx might find the problem.

  As MariaDB is a dropin replacement to MySQL and the Nginx configuration working for other people, I tend towards thinking it might be either a PHP problem or a file permission problem.
• mcbetz

  January 2015

  Hey Ben,

  would you mind posting my question to "Troubleshooting"? Maybe someone else can help me, I think the community is very helpful.

  Thanks,
  Martin
• mpalokaj

  January 2015 edited January 2015

  I feel your pain. Took me a while. Here goes:

  EDIT: Bloody hell, this markup filter is a pain in the *ss. I can't get the formatting right. Make sure not to miss any lines when copying the code.

  1. Set of your /nginx/sites-available/whateversite file to run as a normal server

  SERVERCODE

  server {
  listen 80 default_server;
  listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;
  server_name www.domain.com;
  rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
  }

  ENDSERVERCODE

  The rewrite line forwards non www to www and is optional

  2. In my case sendy is in a subfolder. Add the following

  Sendy code

      location /sendy/ {
          try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php?$args;
      }
  
  
      location /sendy/l/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/l/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /sendy/l.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/t/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/t/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /sendy/t.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/w/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/w/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /sendy/w.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/unsubscribe/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/unsubscribe/(.*)$ /sendy/unsubscribe.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/subscribe/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/subscribe/(.*)$ /sendy/subscribe.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files $uri =404;
          fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/YOURDOMAIN.com/html$fastcgi_script_name;
      }
  
      location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
          access_log off;
          log_not_found off;
          expires 30d;
      }
  

  END SENDY CODE

  3. My mistakes:

  • Set up your cron right, and make sure you have the PHP Cli installed (took me half a day to figure out)
  • Check your nginx error log, it sometimes messes up some fastcgi stuff

  For reference purposes, below is my file as it is. It is built for a https website that runs wordpress in the root and sendy in a subfolder.

  MY FULL FILE

  server {
  listen 80 default_server;
  listen [::]:80 ipv6only=on;
  server_name www.skillcollector.com;
  rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
  }
  server {

  listen              443 ssl;
  server_name         www.skillcollector.com;
  ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/skillcollector.com.chained.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/skillcollector.com.key;
  
  root /var/www/skillcollector.com/html;
  index index.php index.html index.htm; 
  
  location / {
      try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
  }
  
  rewrite ^/sitemap_index\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
  rewrite ^/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;
  
  Sendy
  
      location /sendy/ {
          try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php?$args;
      }
  
  
      location /sendy/l/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/l/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /sendy/l.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/t/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/t/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /sendy/t.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/w/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/w/([a-zA-Z0-9/]+)$ /sendy/w.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/unsubscribe/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/unsubscribe/(.*)$ /sendy/unsubscribe.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location /sendy/subscribe/ {
          rewrite ^/sendy/subscribe/(.*)$ /sendy/subscribe.php?i=$1 last;
      }
  
      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files $uri =404;
          fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/skillcollector.com/html$fastcgi_script_name;
      }
  
      location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
          access_log off;
          log_not_found off;
          expires 30d;
      }
  
  Endsendy
  
  
  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 $uri =404;
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/skillcollector.com/html$fastcgi_script_name;
  }
  

  }

  END MY FULL FILE