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Full friendly URLs configuration for WHMCS on NGINX

HostUpHostUp Member, Host Rep
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Hey all :)

I posted a reply to this thread a while ago after creating URL rewrites for whmcs, but I think that this deserves its own thread for people looking for it.

This is required as NGINX does not support the .httaccess.

Nevertheless here is the tutorial
https://hostup.org/blog/whmcs-friendly-urls-configuration-for-nginx/
If you have any questions, or if I have missed something in this simple, yet non existant elsewhere let me know on here or on the article itself :)

Also this is tested for latest WHMCS 7.7

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  • FalzoFalzo Member
    edited August 2019

    don't want to step on your toes, but I don't think simply creating a location per rewrite rule is a good way to say at least

    on top, you do have quite some blocks doubled up, which you easily can spot, if you sort them a bit better:

    /billing/announcements/?(.*)$
/billing/cart/domain/renew/?(.*)$
/billing/download/?(.*)$
/billing/download/?(.*)$                     !!
/billing/downloads/?(.*)$
/billing/knowledgebase/?(.*)$
/billing/knowledgebase/?(.*)$                !!
/billing/store/order/?(.*)$
/billing/store/order/?(.*)$                  !!
/billing/store/sitelock/?(.*)$
/billing/store/sitelock/?(.*)$               !!
/billing/store/ssl-certificates/?(.*)$
/billing/store/ssl-certificates/?(.*)$       !!
/billing/store/website-builder/?(.*)$
/billing/store/website-builder/?(.*)$        !!

    for the admin stuff you have redundant blocks which you don't need if you already rewrite the path above anyway

    /billing/admin/addons/?(.*)$
/billing/admin/apps/?(.*)$
/billing/admin/domains/?(.*)$
/billing/admin/help/license/?(.*)$
/billing/admin/setup/?(.*)$
/billing/admin/setup/authn/view/?(.*)$                !!
/billing/admin/setup/notifications/overview/?(.*)$    !!
/billing/admin/setup/storage/index/?(.*)$             !!
/billing/admin/setup/payments/tax/?(.*)$              !!
/billing/admin/services/?(.*)$
/billing/admin/services/shared/?(.*)$                 !!
/billing/admin/services/reseller/?(.*)$               !!
/billing/admin/services/server/?(.*)$                 !!
/billing/admin/services/other/?(.*)$                  !!
/billing/admin/utilities/system/php-compat/?(.*)$

    with that in mind, your stuff would already shorten by half ;-)

    besides that, you could have a look into the use of basic regular expressions to create something like

    location ~ /billing/admin/(addons|apps|domains|help\/license|services|setup|utilities\/system\/php-compat)(.*) {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /billing/admin/index.php?rp=/admin/$1$2 last; }

    just a suggestion, you'll get the idea and could easily bring it down to two rules overall maybe?
    I don't use WHMCS so obviously haven't tested it properly, go ahead and play around ;-)

    PS: totally forgot, you also might want to look into adding proper flags to the rewrite rule like last ;-)

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  • HostUpHostUp Member, Host Rep
    edited August 2019

    @Falzo said:
    don't want to step on your toes, but I don't think simply creating a location per rewrite rule is a good way to say at least

    Yeah I totally agree, it might not be as compact but it works just as good. I am looking to make it more compact though (and I probably will tomorrow):p. I was new to nginx when I wrote this.

    I took most of your recommendations and implemented them :). The last compact one with the admin panel works great. Nevertheless I removed duplicates and sorted the code a bit more. Thanks for your awesome comment mate, and for helping me understand as well! :)

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  • HostUpHostUp Member, Host Rep
    edited May 2020

    It's come to my attention that I have gotten many requests for an updated version via mail and comments. I was wondering if anyone here already has one or would like to contribute to the existing blog post (I'll give you credit + backlink) to help others. I am no longer using NGINX but Litespeed instead so I am not really keeping track of all the changes anymore hence the outdated friendly URL rules.

    Thanks!

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