Nginx

Follow instructions below to set up Bacula-Web with Nginx instead of Apache www.

info

Following instructions are for Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat).

If you are using another debian based distribution, you may need to adapt some paths or packages name.

Install nginx & PHP-FPM

Download latest package lists

$ sudo apt-get update

Install Nginx and PHP-FPM

$ sudo apt-get install nginx php-fpm

Configure PHP-FPM

Modify PHP-FPM configuration

$ sudo vim /etc/php/8.3/fpm/php.ini
    
cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
date.timezeone = Europe/Zurich

Restart PHP-FPM service

$ sudo systemctl php8.3-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/bacula-web/public;

  index index.php;

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

  location ~ \.php$ {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
  }    
}

warning

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 systemctl restart nginx

You can now proceed with the installation using Composer