After a long period of doubts should I start testing and developing with Drupal 8, which stable version is not yet released, yesterday I decided to give a try for a Drupal 8 beta release.
I bought a new Linode VPS, quickly deployed there Ubuntu 14.04 and installed Nginx as web server. I did it because of my current server is php 5.2, and Drupal 8 is asking for at least php 5.3. So - not to mess up with my existing server configuration, a new Linode seemed the best option.
All went pretty smoothly, I had some problems to configure Nginx virtual server blocks, but after couple of hours investigation all went right (I forget to do server restart for a few times, to apply new changes).
Anyway when virtual server was configured, DNS pointed, I quickly installed Drupal 8 on one of sub domains (I'm looking to do a Drupal 7 upgrade to Drupal 8, for my existing blog - the one you are reading right now)
Unfortunately my Drupal 8 start didn't started, because of incorrect Virtual Server block settings (what works for Drupal 7, seems doesn't works for Drupal 8). Luckly I found a working solution on a Drupal website:
Nginx server blocks for Drupal 8
server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
#listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
# This is the full path to your index file
root /var/www/www.example.com/public_html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
# This will be your domain name
server_name example.com;
location / {
index index.php;
# This is cool because no php is touched for static content
try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
expires max;
}
location @rewrite {
# Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
# Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ .php$ {
#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
It worked great, My Drupal 8 was up and running - I will write more about Drupal 8 in some of my next posts
