Trying to setup PHP site (friendica) with nginx on localhost

Question

Hi, just new here :-)
Started to use Arch a couple of month ago and sofar everything went fine thanks to the great documentation!
Now I tried to setup friendica on my computer for testing some modifications but I just fail on installing the required modules :-(
I already installed:
php
php-fpm
php-gd
php-cgi
php-mcrypt
mariadb
nginx
phpmyadmin
But I still get the following errors:
GD graphics PHP module (required)
Error: GD graphics PHP module with JPEG support required but not installed.
OpenSSL PHP module (required)
Error: openssl PHP module required but not installed.
mysqli PHP module (required)
Error: mysqli PHP module required but not installed.
Generate encryption keys (required)
Error: the "openssl_pkey_new" function on this system is not able to generate encryption keys
If running under Windows, please see "http://www.php.net/manual/en/openssl.installation.php".
Command line PHP
Could not find a command line version of PHP in the web server PATH.
If you don't have a command line version of PHP installed on server, you will not be able to run background polling via cron. See 'Activating scheduled tasks'
PHP executable path Enter full path to php executable. You can leave this blank to continue the installation.
Url rewrite is working (required)
Url rewrite in .htaccess is not working. Check your server configuration.
My nginx.conf looks like this:
#user http;
worker_processes 1;
error_log logs/error.log;
#error_log logs/error.log notice;
#error_log logs/error.log info;
#pid logs/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
http {
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
#log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
# '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
# '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
#access_log logs/access.log main;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 15;
gzip on;
gzip_comp_level 1;
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
location ~ \.php {
root /srv/http/project;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
location / {
root /srv/http/project;
index index.php;
Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Thanks for the quick answer!
progandy wrote:Did you enable all necessary modules in your php.ini?
I had a look at /etc/php/php.ini but I can't find things (with my knwoledge) that seem to be important....
progandy wrote:Then you'll have to create the rules in the .htaccess in the format nginx understands.
Haven't checked that yet...
progandy wrote:https://github.com/friendica/friendica/ … tall-Guide
This is quite complicated. Seems like I'd need to study  to understand it:-(
progandy wrote:http://jcsesecuneta.com/tome/labox/sett … -on-nginx/
This one seemed clear I changed my nginx.xonf according to it:
server {
listen 80;
server_name localhost;
root /srv/http/project;
access_log off; # If you are using 'Analytics' type software for tracking, keep this 'off'
log_not_found on; # Turn on if you want to track "not found" errors
error_log /srv/http/project/logs/error.log info; # valid values: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit
#rewrite_log on; # Uncomment if you want to debug your rewrites (then change 'crit' above to 'notice')
# block stuff early
# Do not log favicon.ico and robots.txt stuff
location ~* /(favicon\.ico|robots\.txt) {
allow all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
# Return error 444 for these files
location ~* ^.+\.(bzr|git|log)$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
return 444;
# Deny public access to ~ (bak) files
location ~* ~$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
return 444;
# Friendica #
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ @friendicacleanurl;
location @friendicacleanurl {
rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?q=$uri last;
break;
# Security: Friendica #
# block public access to .htaccess and .htconfig.php
location ~* /\.ht {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
return 444;
# block public access to .tpl files located in /view/ folder
location ~* /view/(.*)\.tpl$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
return 444;
# block public access to /util/ folder
location ^~ /util/ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
return 444;
# Deliver static files directly #
# images (Friendica)
location ~* /(addon|images|library|spec|util|view)/(.*)\.(bmp|cur|gif|ico|j2k|jp2|jpe|jpeg|jpf|jpg|jpm|jpx|mj2|mng|png|svg|svgz|thm|tif|tiff|webp)$ {
add_header Pragma "public";
add_header Cache-Control "public";
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
expires 28d;
# redirect 50x error pages #
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
internal;
# enable PHP #
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; # Comment if you want to use sock instead of tcp
#fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm.sock; # Uncomment to use sock instead of tcp
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
but then nothing works anymore! When I try to restart nginx I get:
sudo systemctl status nginx.service
nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) (Result: exit-code) since Sa 2013-12-28 18:05:13 CET; 1 day 22h ago
Process: 15591 ExecReload=/usr/bin/nginx -g pid /run/nginx.pid; daemon on; master_process on; -s reload (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 318 ExecStart=/usr/bin/nginx -g pid /run/nginx.pid; daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Process: 314 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/nginx -t -q -g pid /run/nginx.pid; daemon on; master_process on; (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 320 (nginx)
CGroup: /system.slice/nginx.service
├─ 320 nginx: master process /usr/bin/nginx -g pid /run/nginx.pid; daemon on; master_process on;
└─10295 nginx: worker process
Dez 30 14:59:10 thinker nginx[10294]: 2013/12/30 14:59:10 [notice] 10294#0: signal process started
Dez 30 14:59:10 thinker systemd[1]: Reloaded A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
Dez 30 16:12:58 thinker systemd[1]: Reloading A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
Dez 30 16:12:58 thinker nginx[15396]: 2013/12/30 16:12:58 [emerg] 15396#0: "server" directive is not allowed here in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:1
Dez 30 16:12:58 thinker systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Dez 30 16:12:58 thinker systemd[1]: Reload failed for A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
Dez 30 16:15:33 thinker systemd[1]: Reloading A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
Dez 30 16:15:33 thinker nginx[15591]: 2013/12/30 16:15:33 [emerg] 15591#0: no "events" section in configuration
Dez 30 16:15:33 thinker systemd[1]: nginx.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Dez 30 16:15:33 thinker systemd[1]: Reload failed for A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
What's wrong?