/arcade = works | /arcade.php = NOPE

[ChemicalKicks]

Try it yourself.

Going to www.the-sps.org/arcade will take you to the arcade but add.php on the end and it's a no show, not even a 404.

Also of interest are the 404 and when they chose to work,

www.the-sps.org/doesntwork
www.the-sps.org/doesntwork.php

As soon as the .php extension is there the nginx just says NOPE.

Has to the the nginx vhost but what?

NOTE.

If you've stumbled across this thread for a fix to the described problem just go ahead and use the suggest nginx conf that can be found in the xf help pages it incorporates the changes suggested in this thread.

 

[Digital Doctor]

does /arcade/arcade.php work ?

is the file called arcade.php or is it xfarcade.php ? or ...

 

[Digital Doctor]

FYI, in Space Invaders ... when it is down to the last guy ... the invader speed doesn't increase ! It is very easy

 

[ChemicalKicks]

does /arcade/arcade.php work ?

You think like me, tried that and no it didn't work.

is the file called arcade.php or is it xfarcade.php ? or ...

heh well....... there isn't an arcade.php in the web root. Here's what Kevin had to say on it

ChemicalKicks' problem is that his site with nginx is not properly handling trying to use "arcade.php" when saving the scores. For example, you should be able to go to http://{yoursite}/arcade *and* http://{yoursite}/arcade.php and see the same thing, the arcade index page. Right now on his site /arcade shows the arcade index but /arcade.php shows a blank page. The showing of the blank page means that the direction to arcade.php is not getting handled by XF so games that submit scores to arcade.php won't work. IPB games will likely work since on his site /index.php is properly loading the default XF index page. Prior his site using Apache and the XF .htaccess file was working fine but now the corresponding nginx rewrite rules need to be added as well.

Now I'm using the rules suggested by XenForo Help as per here but now joy.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

FYI, in Space Invaders ... when it is down to the last guy ... the invader speed doesn't increase ! It is very easy
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Did your score submit?

 

[Digital Doctor]

No. I'm a guest too. Pacman didn't give submission options (FYI).

 

[ChemicalKicks]

No. I'm a guest too. Pacman didn't give submission options (FYI).

Yeah it's the old v3 games that do that which prompted me to try and get help on the arcade.php bit not working

 

[Brandon Sheley]

I'd ask this type of question at the arcade modding site
http://xfarcade.com/

 

[ChemicalKicks]

I'd ask this type of question at the arcade modding site
http://xfarcade.com/

That would be preferable but the problem I'm having with the arcade is merely a symptom, It's not a cause. Try this.

www.the-sps.org/brandon gets a 404 which has been internally handled

Now try

www.the-sps.org/brandon.php gets 404 handled by the webserver

 

[Liam D.]

What webserver are you running on?

 

[ChemicalKicks]

What webserver are you running on?

Nginx.

I was speaking to Mike but he doesn't feel confident enough dealing with nginx to give me any solid advice.

 

[Liam D.]

For NginX:

location /path-to-forum/ {
  try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php;
}

Backup first before adding code. Just to be safe.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

For NginX:

location /path-to-forum/ {
  try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php;
}

Backup first before adding code. Just to be safe.

Thanks for your suggestion, I tried that, cleared the cache and restarted php and nginx. When I attempted to access my main url I got a 403 error.

This is what I have at the moment, I hope it helps.

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
    index index.php index.html;
}

 

[Luke F]

try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php /index.php?$uri&$args;

 

[ChemicalKicks]

try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php /index.php?$uri&$args;

Gave that a go, restarted and although the rest of the site works www.the-sps.org/arcade.php doesn't

 

[Luke F]

rewrite /arcade.php /arcade redirect;

 

[ChemicalKicks]

rewrite /arcade.php /arcade redirect;

So say something like this

location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
index index.php index.html;
rewrite /arcade.php /arcade redirect;
}

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Still running into a brick wall with this, not sure how I'm going to get this resolved.

 

[Liam D.]

Try this:

location /path-to-forum/ {
    index index.php index.html;
    try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php?$uri&args;
}

I believe that would work, since I ran that successfully on my server, and of course, restart the NginX service.

 

[ChemicalKicks]

Try this:

location /path-to-forum/ {
    index index.php index.html;
    try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.php?$uri&args;
}

I believe that would work, since I ran that successfully on my server, and of course, restart the NginX service.

Hey Liam,

Thanks, I tried that in my conf.

It resulted in /arcade.php throwing up a 404. Bummer.