title: activecollab 5 nginx url rewrite not working
body: <p>I was trying to install Activecollab as per the <a href="https://activecollab.com/help/books/self-hosted/installation" rel="noreferrer">instructions here</a>. </p>
  
  <p>My vhost config for nginx is <a href="https://gist.github.com/anonymous/e66e5094ddff71e8ea9e144647662358" rel="noreferrer">here</a> </p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
      listen *:80;
      server_name collab.example.com;
      access_log /var/log/nginx/ac.access.log;
      error_log /var/log/nginx/ac.error.log;
  
      set $root_path /usr/share/nginx/html/collabs/public;
      root $root_path;
  
      index index.html index.htm index.php router.php;
      charset utf-8;
  
      if (!-e $request_filename) {
          rewrite ^/assets/(.*)$ /assets/$1 last;
          rewrite ^/avatars/(.*)$ /avatars/$1 last;
          rewrite ^/wallpapers/(.*)$ /wallpapers/$1 last;
          rewrite ^/verify-existence$ /verify.php last;
          rewrite ^/proxy.php$ /proxy.php last;
          rewrite ^/api/v([0-9]*)/(.*)$ /api.php?path_info=$2&amp;api_version=$1 last;
          rewrite ^$ /router.php last;
          rewrite ^(.*) /router.php?path_info=$1 last;
      }
  
  
      location ~ ^/(assets|avatars|wallpapers)/ {
          root $root_path;
      }
  
      location = /robots.txt {
          allow all;
          log_not_found off;
          access_log off;
      }
  
  
      location ~ \.php$ {
          try_files $uri =404;
          fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
          fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
          fastcgi_read_timeout 150;
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
          include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Output of <code>nginx -V</code></p>
  
  <p><code>
  nginx version: nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu)
  built with OpenSSL 1.0.2g  1 Mar 2016
  TLS SNI support enabled
  configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-ipv6 --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-stream --with-stream_ssl_module --with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module --with-threads
  </code></p>
  
  <p>I am getting error </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Error — URL rewriting is not enabled. Invalid URL rewrite check response:</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Any help is appreciated. </p>