Bitnami Drupal with apache + nginx is a mirage?

dantinoesposito 2021-01-29 19:05:36 UTC #1

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Describe here your question/suggestion/issue (expected and actual results):
I installed nginx, tried to run apache and nginx on different ports (one on 80 and the other on 8080) but not only does it not work, but doesn't even restart bitnami (Failed to start LSB: bitnami init script).
I need both web servers but understand what I did too much (or didn't do and that was needed) and how to have these two with bitnami drupal; it looks like a mirage.
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Copy the apache log (if relevant):

[Fri Jan 29 15:48:32.228193 2021] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 10873:tid 139859847469952] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down[Fri Jan 29 15:48:32.754162 2021] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 11358:tid 140455115254656] AH00489: Apache/2.4.46 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.1.1d configured -- resuming normal operations[Fri Jan 29 15:48:32.754268 2021] [core:notice] [pid 11358:tid 140455115254656] AH00094: Command line: '/opt/bitnami/apache/bin/httpd -f /opt/bitnami/apache/conf/httpd.conf'[Fri Jan 29 15:48:35.744082 2021] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 11358:tid 140455115254656] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down[Fri Jan 29 15:48:45.994050 2021] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 11917:tid 140693937834880] AH00489: Apache/2.4.46 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.1.1d configured -- resuming normal operations[Fri Jan 29 15:48:45.994143 2021] [core:notice] [pid 11917:tid 140693937834880] AH00094: Command line: '/opt/bitnami/apache/bin/httpd -f /opt/bitnami/apache/conf/httpd.conf'[Fri Jan 29 16:29:06.856707 2021] [mpm_event:notice] [pid 11917:tid 140693937834880] AH00491: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

gongomgra 2021-02-01 10:52:17 UTC #2

Hi @dantinoesposito,

Thanks for using Bitnami. I don't fully understand if you are trying to server Drupal both with Apache and NGINX at the same time. Can you clarify this a bit?

According to the bnsupport bundle you shared, your server is running NGINX but not Apache (or any other Bitnami service), did you stop them?

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Check Apache path:
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Running: ps aux | grep 'apache\|mysql\|nginx\|/opt/bitnami'
In: /opt/bitnami

Output:

root      2016  0.0  0.1 1312128  948 ?        Ssl  Jan17   0:10 /opt/bitnami/gonit/bin/gonit
root     13063  0.0  0.2  67704  1016 ?        Ss   16:29   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
www-data 13065  0.0  0.4  68020  2320 ?        S    16:29   0:00 nginx: worker process
root     13322  0.0  5.4 556700 26864 ?        Ss   16:35   0:00 php-fpm: master process (/opt/bitnami/php/etc/php-fpm.conf)
root     15122  0.0  0.5   9944  2636 pts/0    S+   18:59   0:00 sudo /opt/bitnami/bnsupport-tool
root     15123 20.7 35.1 208304 171988 pts/0   Sl+  18:59   0:12 /opt/bitnami/bnsupport-tool
root     15270  0.0  0.1   2388   760 pts/0    S+   19:00   0:00 /bin/sh -c "ps" aux | grep 'apache\|mysql\|nginx\|/opt/bitnami'
root     15272  0.0  0.1   6212   888 pts/0    S+   19:00   0:00 grep apache\|mysql\|nginx\|/opt/bitnami



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Get the ctlscript status
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Running: ./ctlscript.sh status
In: /opt/bitnami

Output:

apache not running
mariadb not running
php-fpm not running

However, I don't see any special configuration in Apache to move it to port 8080. You can follow the next guide to do so, but I think it is better to first understand what are you trying to achieve in case there is any other simpler way to do it.

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/apps/drupal/administration/configure-port/

dantinoesposito 2021-02-02 21:39:18 UTC #3

Hello @gongomgra, I solved some messes and now it seems almost all done (referred to the port problem, for example, which I seem to have fixed correctly and in fact "sudo netstat -tlnp" reports 8080 for apache and 80 for nginx, thanks for the link). From seems to be, something else is needed. However, I answer your questions: very simply I want to make nginx work for apache so that they are useful for the site, I am not interested in creating different portions of servers, but only make them coexist in symbiosis with bitnami drupal; now, is running nginx + apache (check it from the new support bundle please), and the site is up as well, I'm just not sure if I managed to configure everything well or not:
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Many thanks

gongomgra 2021-02-03 11:48:05 UTC #4

Hi @dantinoesposito,

I want to make nginx work for apache so that they are useful for the site

Excuse me, but I still don't fully understand why you want to have both web servers in the same machine to serve Drupal. Would be a good solution for you to launch an NGINX webserver and then install Drupal manually on top of it?

https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/infrastructure/nginx/administration/create-custom-application-php/

I also can't see your Drupal website when I visit your domain, just the NGINX welcome page

dantinoesposito 2021-02-03 16:11:08 UTC #5

Hello @gongomgra,

I'm sorry, most likely there was a misunderstanding, I had read on an article that it was possible to slightly speed up the bitnami drupal site running on nginx instead of apache and then I was lost in other articles that instead installed both. So, just install nginx I think and not have both. However, I followed the guide you suggested and tried, in my programming ignorance, to run bitnami on nginx but if the welcome screen appears on nginx instead of the website it means that something is not working. In fact, to "sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart nginx" i get "Failed to restart nginx: Cannot find check with id nginx".

This is the new support code anyway:
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Thanks again

dantinoesposito 2021-02-03 16:15:40 UTC #6

I want to remind you that I cannot launch a new instance with nginx and then install bitnami drupal, so I tried to configure it here where I have it now, because I still made various changes (module installations, and exact configurations, on drupal) that I don't I wish they were lost with a fresh install from scratch. Or else, a solution would be to just backup the drupal folder and move it to a new instance, but I wonder if it's easier to see where the problem lies here than to grapple with any new problems. Thanks for any kind of support you will give me.

gongomgra 2021-02-04 10:24:43 UTC #7

Hi @dantinoesposito,

Thanks for your message. I think I know what you are referring. In the past, our Bitnami Cloud Hosting machines allowed you to easily "replace" Apache with NGINX by doing the steps you mentioned. But unfortunately, it is no longer possible. Can you share with me the link to the guide you are using so I can report it to the docs team for them to update it?

Regarding your current server, please note installing the Bitnami Drupal stack will always install Apache and configure Drupal to be served using it. Installing the NGINX server from the system packages and configuring it to server the Drupal application installed in the /opt/bitnami/drupal directory is something we can't help you with, as we don't support it.

What we recommend is to create a new Bitnami NGINX machine and manually install and configure Drupal as explained in the guide I shared. You can migrate your current Drupal info using the official tools for this. I found a module related that I think may help you

https://www.drupal.org/migrate

We also recommend this way of proceeding to avoid having an extra Apache service on your current service that, although you can stop, will be consuming disk space.

system 2021-02-18 10:24:54 UTC #8

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