Luci on nginx compile

astinus000 · May 18, 2018, 4:34pm

Good day!
Is there any news about using Luci on nginx?
I've read topic about month ago that someone complete this task, but no detailed info at all.
Can somebody clear this moment?
Link to topic Compilation problem

lleachii · May 18, 2018, 5:56pm

This topic you linked was about compiling a Python package on OpenWRT, not about nginx.

See: https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/luci.essentials#luci_on_nginx

Hope this helps.

astinus000 · May 18, 2018, 6:41pm

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Hmm. Here is the message from that topic.

lleachii · May 18, 2018, 7:12pm

OK...another message also says:

So, the OP should ask @Ansuel about success wtih LuCI on nginx., as the manual says:

Luci on nginx is not possible as nginx does not support plain cgi.

Ansuel · May 18, 2018, 7:41pm

uwsgi adds support for plain cgi and compiles well... problem is set it...

we can also use this...
fcgiwrap

but it's a bit old...

if someone wants to help me in finding how to configure uwsgi...

JW0914 · May 18, 2018, 10:24pm

I spent around a month researching and trying to get nginx to work with plain cgi support for LuCI in 2015ish, and at that point in time, it wasn't possible... if you are able to get nginx working with plain cgi for LuCI, please post your steps, as an asynchronous web server for a WebUI is preferred to a synchronous one like uhttpd.

Ansuel · May 18, 2018, 10:50pm

back in times we didn't have tools... now we have 2 way to make them working... fcgiwrap or uwsgi

i can't find lots of guide about uwsgi with plain cgi anyway... but i tested and it's working on lede (i mean the deamon and his service)
so now we need to find some way to configure it

i manage to compile fcgiwrap anyway very easy

anyway it looks like we need something to run LUA SCRIPT NOT PLAIN CGI

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 7:39am

As I can see LUA scripts also working with uWSGI: http://uwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Lua.html
And also CGI support could be enabled with uWSGI: http://uwsgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CGI.html
So I think uWSGI enough to make LUCI work under nginx.

Ansuel · May 19, 2018, 10:22pm

you won't belive me but i'm so close to make it working!!!

Cattura

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 10:36pm

@Ansuel, yahooo!!! I believe in You

Ansuel · May 19, 2018, 10:44pm

problem is solve that damm unable to dispatch...

think the lua cgi is working as now it loads the page and the scripts...
nginx report 404 on cgi-bin/luci ummm

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 10:49pm

@Ansuel what extension have scripts located in cgi-bin/luci ?

Ansuel · May 19, 2018, 10:55pm

OMFG it's working yessss

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 10:55pm

nice

Ansuel · May 19, 2018, 10:55pm

spoke too soon... the login page loads but doesn't go ahead....
Cattura

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 10:59pm

try change music to money for nothing...
what is in logs?

Ansuel · May 19, 2018, 11:04pm

pref under pressure
anyway now problem is that luci repond with a 403 error forbidden like here with lighthttpd

https://github.com/openwrt/luci/issues/922

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 11:14pm

Is that fix works?

A possible fix to LuCI is to edit /usr/lib/lua/luci/http.lua:

--- http.lua 	2017-01-07 11:12:23.715932000 -0500
+++ http.lua.new	2017-01-07 11:10:51.505932000 -0500
@@ -241,7 +241,8 @@
 function redirect(url)
 	if url == "" then url = "/" end
 	status(302, "Found")
-	header("Location", url)
+	local scheme = getenv("HTTPS") and "https" or "http"
+	header("Location", scheme .. "://" .. getenv("SERVER_NAME") .. url)
 	close()
 end

However, for it to take effect you need to rm -rf /tmp/luci-modulecache/

Ansuel · May 19, 2018, 11:17pm

looks like no

astinus000 · May 19, 2018, 11:28pm

Is that a solution? https://github.com/openwrt/luci/issues/1639