Nginx web server

Before you start

Before proceeding to Nginx / fpm / PHP installation and configuration, read the Requirements page.

Install required packages

Follow instructions below to setup Bacula-Web with Nginx instead of Apache www

Note

These instruction have been tested with Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial).

Download latest package lists

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Nginx and PHP-FPM

$ sudo apt-get install nginx php-fpm php-sqlite3

If you use MySQL Bacula catalog

$ sudo apt-get install php-mysql

If you use postgreSQL Bacula catalog

$ sudo apt-get install php-pgsql

Configure PHP-FPM

Modify PHP-FPM configuration

$ sudo vim /etc/php/7.4/fpm/php.ini

cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
date.timezeone = Europe/Zurich

Restart PHP-FPM service

/etc/init.d/php7.4-fpm restart

Configure Nginx

Define a new virtual server configuration like below.

server {
  server_name bacula-web.domain.com;

  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;

  root /var/www/html/bacula-web/public;

  index index.php;

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

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

Important

Please note that as of version 8.6.0, the DocumentRoot must be set to the public sub-folder.

Test your configuration

$ sudo nginx -t && echo "Nginx is ok"

Restart Nginx to apply configuration changes

$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx restart

Once your web server is ready, you can proceed with Bacula-Web installation.

You have now two different options