CraftCMS config on WTServer / WinNMP for Windows with Nginx

Question

Has anyone had success with using Craft and WTServer (WinNMP) together? I'm getting a 400 error at "http://craft.test/index.php?p=admintrigger/actions/users/login" after trying to login the admin. I'm suspicious that my Nginx config rewrites aren't working, but unsure how to troubleshoot it. The front-end displays fine, and the login screen works but the login submit throws the 400 error.

nginx server block...

server {

listen      127.0.0.1:80;
server_name     craft.test craft.dev;
charset utf-8;
root    "c:/wtserver/www/craft/web"; # locked
allow       127.0.0.1;
deny        all;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
ssi on;
client_max_body_size 0;
error_page 404 /index.php?$query_string;

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

location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    # Change this to whatever version of php you are using
    include     nginx.fastcgi.conf;
    include     nginx.redis.conf;
    fastcgi_pass    php_farm;
    fastcgi_hide_header X-Powered-By;

    add_header Last-Modified $date_gmt;
    add_header Cache-Control "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0";
    if_modified_since off;
    expires off;
    etag off;

    fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
    fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
    fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
    fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
}

location ~ /\.(ht|svn|git) {
    deny all;
}

sendfile off;

general.php

return [
// Global settings
'*' => [
    // Default Week Start Day (0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday...)
    'defaultWeekStartDay' => 1,

    // Whether generated URLs should omit "index.php"
    'omitScriptNameInUrls' => true,

    // Control Panel trigger word
    'cpTrigger' => 'admintrigger',

    // The secure key Craft will use for hashing and encrypting data
    'securityKey' => getenv('SECURITY_KEY'),

    // Whether to save the project config out to config/project.yaml
    // (see https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/project-config.html)
    'useProjectConfigFile' => false,
],

// Dev environment settings
'dev' => [
    // Dev Mode (see https://craftcms.com/guides/what-dev-mode-does)
    'devMode' => true,
],

// Staging environment settings
'staging' => [
    // Set this to `false` to prevent administrative changes from being made on staging
    'allowAdminChanges' => true,
],

// Production environment settings
'production' => [
    // Set this to `false` to prevent administrative changes from being made on production
    'allowAdminChanges' => true,
],

Error in the Network console...

404s...

2019-04-07 10:54:44 [-][-][dc567ad367247e3bf37e7ce11ac60e93][error][yii\web\HttpException:404] yii\web\NotFoundHttpException: Template not found: favicon.ico in C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\craftcms\cms\src\controllers\TemplatesController.php:70 Stack trace: 0 [internal function]: craft\controllers\TemplatesController->actionRender('favicon.ico', Array) 1 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\yiisoft\yii2\base\InlineAction.php(57): call_user_func_array(Array, Array) 2 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\yiisoft\yii2\base\Controller.php(157): yii\base\InlineAction->runWithParams(Array) 3 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\craftcms\cms\src\web\Controller.php(109): yii\base\Controller->runAction('render', Array) 4 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\yiisoft\yii2\base\Module.php(528): craft\web\Controller->runAction('render', Array) 5 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\craftcms\cms\src\web\Application.php(297): yii\base\Module->runAction('templates/rende...', Array) 6 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\yiisoft\yii2\web\Application.php(103): craft\web\Application->runAction('templates/rende...', Array) 7 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\craftcms\cms\src\web\Application.php(286): yii\web\Application->handleRequest(Object(craft\web\Request)) 8 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\vendor\yiisoft\yii2\base\Application.php(386): craft\web\Application->handleRequest(Object(craft\web\Request)) 9 C:\WinNMP\WWW\craft\web\index.php(21): yii\base\Application->run() 10 {main}

Answer 1

For me, this didn't have anything to do with rewrites. I installed WTServer (WinNMP) and a fresh copy of Craft.

I noticed the same 400 response when trying to log in and was seeing this in the body:

400 Request Header Or Cookie Too Large

After a quick Google, I noticed that the default nginx config that WTServer has these set:

client_header_buffer_size   1k;
large_client_header_buffers 2 1k;

I bumped those up to this:

client_header_buffer_size   8k;
large_client_header_buffers 8 16k;

Restarted nginx and everything started working fine.

Answer 2

This is my clean wtserver/winnmp nginx conf file for Craft (and pretty much anything else like Laravel etc.).

server {

    listen          127.0.0.1:80;
    server_name     icraft.test; # locked
    root            "c:\web\icraft\public"; # locked

    allow           127.0.0.1;
    deny            all;
    autoindex       on;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        include         nginx.fastcgi.conf;
        include         nginx.redis.conf;
        fastcgi_pass    php_farm;
    }

}

Assuming you installed winnmp to c:\web\winnmp, this file would go to c:\web\winnmp\conf\domains.d\icraft.conf

You can drop the index.php?p= part (just use pretty URLs) - if you're still having issues, post your config\general.php, you might have a Craft config issue.