[ixpmanager] NGINX vs Apache

[Pete Ashdown]

> On Apr 10, 2025, at 2:22 PM, Barry O'Donovan (INEX) <barry.odonovan at inex.ie> wrote:
> 
> On a standard install, there should be no issues.  Apache is considerably easier than Nginx which is why we default to that in the documentation / installers.
> 
> With Apache, you install the Apache PHP module (e.g., libapache2-mod-php8.0) and PHP scripts tend to “just work”. With Nginx, you need to install, e.g., php8.0-fpm, which runs as its own process and then you need to configure Nginx to pass PHP requests off to that daemon.
> 
> On systems running the latest 6.x release of IXP Manager and Nginx, I could not replicate your issue. As such, and because I use Nginx all the time also, I’d be fairly confident this is a local issue of some sort.
> 
> I do note from your issues that you are running php 8.3. I only run php8.0 or php8.1 with IXP Manager v6.x. I’m not suggesting there would be an issue with 8.3, I just simply do not know.

This was the issue I opened up prior regarding embedding images:

https://github.com/issues/created?q=is%3Aissue++archived%3Afalse+author%3A%40me+sort%3Aupdated-desc+&issue=inex%7CIXP-Manager%7C917
I am running php 8.1 on Apache2 now, but I still had my NGINX configs, so I tried a quick swap.  The bug came back with NGINX and php 8.1.  My config doesn’t differ from yours.  Very odd bug.  In any case, I think I’m going to stick with Apache2, so this isn’t a big deal.

Here’s the relevant config for nginx:
    server_name ixp.slix.net;
    root /srv/ixpmanager/public;

    # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
         include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
         fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /\.ht {
	deny all;
    }

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