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Hello,

I have a domain that I would like to move from my old Nginx server to my new Hiawatha server.
The problem is that the site is build in Wordpress multisite. In order for it to work correctly in Nginx I had to set specific Nginx rewrite rules...

Could anyone tell me if the same apply in Hiawatha webserver?
If yes, could you please share the config file?

Thank you in advance

Hiawatha version: v9.8
Operating System: FreeBSD 10

Rewrite rules for Wordpress are already available. If those are not the ones you are looking for, post the Nginx rules here and perhaps I can convert them for you. Nginx rules don't work directly for Hiawatha.

Hi Hugo,

This is the rules I use at the moment in Nginx

# WordPress multisite subdirectory rules.
# Designed to be included in any server {} block.
index index.php;
# This order might seem weird - this is attempted to match last if rules below fail.
# http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule
location / {
 try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;
# Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server.
location ~ \.php$ {
 # Zero-day exploit defense.
 # http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,88845,page=3
 # Won't work properly (404 error) if the file is not stored on this server, which is entirely possible with php-fpm/php-fcgi.
 # Comment the 'try_files' line out if you set up php-fpm/php-fcgi on another machine. And then cross your fingers that you won't get hacked.
 try_files $uri =404;
# fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
 #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
include fastcgi_params;
 fastcgi_index index.php;
# fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
# fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
 fastcgi_pass php5-fpm;
}
location ~ ^/files/(.*)$ {
 try_files /wp-content/blogs.dir/$blogid/$uri /wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 ;
 # access_log on; log_not_found on; expires max;
}
#avoid php readfile()
location ^~ /blogs.dir {
 internal;
 alias /var/www/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir ;
 access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
}
# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* ^.+\.(xml|ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|css|rss|atom|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
 access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max;
}

Thank you
Fred

I don't know if this is easier for you to translate but using .htacess, the rules are:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

It should be something like this:

UrlToolkit {
  ToolkitID = multiwp
  Match ^/index\.php$ Return
  Match ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ Redirect /$1wp-admin/
  RequestURI exists Return
  Match ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) Rewrite /$2
  Match ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ Rewrite /$2
  Match .* Rewrite /index.php
}

I haven't tested this rule, so it's very well possible it needs some tweaking.

Thank you very much Hugo.
I'll load them into my config file and let you know

Hi Hugo,

The system is complaining of syntax error.
But I have no info about it, and the log isn't giving me anything.
Any chance you could assist me a little bit further please?

Thank you
Fred

Syntax error in what line?

It state line 144 wich correspond to the

UrlToolkit {

I haven't got more information sorry

Are you sure it only says "UrlToolkit {"? Please, check carefully.

This is the only error that I can find

root@zion /# service hiawatha start
Starting hiawatha.
Syntax error in hiawatha.conf on line 144.
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hiawatha: WARNING: failed to start hiawatha

This is the line it refered to

136
137 UrlToolkit {
138         ToolkitID = wordpress
139         RequestURI exists Return
140         Match .*\?(.*) Rewrite /index.php?$1
141         Match .* Rewrite /index.php
142 }
143
144 UrlToolit {
145        ToolkitID = multiwp
146        Match ^/index\.php$ Return
147        Match ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ Redirect /$1wp-admin/
148        RequestURI exists Return
149        Match ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) Rewrite /$2
150        Match ^/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ Rewrite /$2
151        Match .* Rewrite /index.php
152 }
153

The system.log file has no information.

Fred

UrlToolit should be UrlToolkit

Oops,

Now I feel embarrassed
Thank you very much for the support.

Fred