Nginx config for IPB4

[Ortix]

I'm having trouble getting IPB work on my digital ocean droplet. I'm curious if there are people who got it to work and what configs they used?

The problem I have is that I get a blank page before install even starts. It does redirect to the install page tho so that works. I am also able to die and dump strings in the index file so HHVM also works. I'm still figuring out where it's going wrong. I have a feeling it has to do with my url arguments. But i want some feedback.

This is what my config currently looks like:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  forums.animekyun.com www.forums.animekyun.com;
    root         /home/forge/forums.animekyun.com;
 
    # Basic web server configuration.
    index        index.php
    client_max_body_size  8M;
    
    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/forums.animekyun.com-error.log error;
 
    # GZIP static content not processed by IPB.
    gzip  on;
    gzip_static on;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_comp_level 3;
    gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript application/javascript text/x-js;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6].(?!.*SV1)";
 
    # Set up rewrite rules.
    location / {
        try_files  $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }
    location ~^(/page/).*(.php)$ {
        try_files  $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }
 
 
    # Caching directives for static files.
    location ~^(/uploads/profile/).*.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png)$ {
        access_log off;
        expires    1d;
    }
    location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml|htm|txt|swf|cur)$ {
        access_log off;
        expires    1w;
    }
 
    # Pass PHP scripts to php-fpm
    location ~ .php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_buffers 16 8k;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }
}

 

[Ortix]

This is where it goes wrong:

<?php
/**
 * @brief		Installer bootstrap
 * @author		<a href='http://www.invisionpower.com'>Invision Power Services, Inc.</a>
 * @copyright	(c) 2001 - SVN_YYYY Invision Power Services, Inc.
 * @license		http://www.invisionpower.com/legal/standards/
 * @package		IPS Social Suite
 * @since		2 Apr 2013
 * @version		SVN_VERSION_NUMBER
 */

require_once '../../init.php';

// starting from here I can't dump out anything.
\IPS\Dispatcher\Setup::i()->setLocation('install')->run();

I never dove into the framework of IPB so I will have to dig a bit deeper but until then this is all I have

[Ortix]

Turns out that IP.Board has trouble running on HHVM... anyone know how to configure it in a workable way?

[Gary_J_Wright]

Did you resolve this as i'm running on Digital Ocean droplet without problems, 

my setup is digital ocean droplet unbuntu 14.04 x64 (cheapest $5 a month)

and using Server pilot (free option) as my cpanel.

mandrill for email - All seems fine so far (free 12,000 emails a month)

[Knight22]

I also tried it, but i ran into the same and many other error's 

This is one of it. HHVM is so special but many functions are ported to it. So i hope that it would be possible in the future to run IPB 4 with HHVM

\nNotice: Use of undefined constant ENT_DISALLOWED - assumed 'ENT_DISALLOWED' in /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/init.php on line 96
\nFatal error: Uncaught exception 'ErrorException' with message 'htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 2 to be integer, string given' in /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Theme/Theme.php(639) : eval()'d code:296\nStack trace:\n#0 (): IPS\\IPS::errorHandler()\n#1 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Theme/Theme.php(639) : eval()'d code(296): htmlspecialchars()\n#2 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Helpers/Form/Form.php(131): IPS\\Theme\\class_core_global_forms->button()\n#3 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Login/Login.php(247): IPS\\Helpers\\_Form->__construct()\n#4 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/applications/core/modules/admin/system/login.php(43): IPS\\_Login->forms()\n#5 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Dispatcher/Controller.php(94): IPS\\core\\modules\\admin\\system\\_login->manage()\n#6 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Dispatcher/Dispatcher.php(129): IPS\\Dispatcher\\_Controller->execute()\n#7 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/admin/index.php(13): IPS\\_Dispatcher->run()\n#8 {main}
\nFatal error: Uncaught exception 'BadMethodCallException' with message 'Call to a member function fetch_fields() on a non-object (boolean)' in :\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Db/Db.php(391): mysqli_stmt->store_result()\n#1 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Db/Db.php(622): IPS\\_Db->preparedQuery()\n#2 /var/www/forum/htdocs/ips4/system/Session/Admin.php(115): IPS\\_Db->replace()\n#3 (): IPS\\Session\\_Admin->write()\n#4 (): call_user_func()\n#5 (): __SystemLib\\SessionForwardingHandler->write()\n#6 (): session_write_close()\n#7 {main}
Finished singleJitRequest 4

 

[Gary_J_Wright]

because HHVM is still quite new it's still needs developement to work with many softwares not just ipb, tbh this is not a ipb problem but just a incompatibility of HHVM, i'm sure it will improve given time.