iTop and NGINX

If you are running iTop on NGINX and choosed the enhanced portal, you are most likely to encounter a 404 error on some portal pages.

By default when accessing an url like : http://localhost/dir/script.php/arg1/arg2 NGINX thinks that script.php is a directory and tries to execute the index file located at /dir/script.php/arg1/arg2 (which doesn't exists).

In iTop this means that when NGINX is trying to execute http://localhost/pages/exec.php/browse/faq?exec_module=itop-portal.php&exec_page=index.php NGINX actually tries to execute /pages/exec.php/browse/faq which is not a real script.

You need to configure your NGINX server properly so it can serve those urls correctly.

The enhanced portal is based on the silex framework which provides a documentation about this configuration. You can adapt it to your instance. Just keep in mind that the portal uses /pages/exec.php instead of /index.php.

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}

location ~ ^(.+.\.php)(/|$) {
    fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;  #For Debian, depends on distributive
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}