Why can't I access other page than default page on Magento? - php

Question

Hi every one I am new to magento. I've been trying to install magento 1.9.0.0 on with nginx server on Ubuntu 14.04LTS but I can't get started. I can see default page see below
magento default page
but whenever I try to log in it, server fails with UNABLE TO CONNECT error.
here is my virtual host
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name www.mymagento.com;
root /var/www/magento;
index index.php;
#need it to execute php
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
}
I already tried other solution like updating core_config_data web/unsecure/base_url and web/secure/base_url they contain my base url.
I tried reloading cache. there is nothing in nginx log neiher.
Thank you for helping me :-)

Answer 1

You have nothing to redirect URIs to the Magento common front handler. As a minimum you should add:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
But I suggest that you check this site for more.

Answer 2

Hi as Richard SMITH said, my virtual host was missing some lines to somehow redirect to front handler. As I have just begin to use Nginx, I won't be able to explain each lines but after strugling with Nginx this config works for me (I also needed to add self signed certificate to config to make it work).
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
listen 443 default ssl;
server_name www.mymagento.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/nginx.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/nginx.key;
root /var/www/magento;
index index.php;
location / {
index index.html index.php;
autoindex on;
#If missing pass the URI to Magento's front handler
try_files $uri $uri/ #handler;
expires max;
}
#need it to execute php
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
## Magento uses a common front handler
location #handler {
rewrite / /index.php;
}
}