Hello!

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:09:07PM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (nginx) wrote:

> I'm a sysadmin at a large organization, where we use a lot of
> drupal on nginx (hundreds of sites).
>
> Recently, we encountered two bugs related to drupal 8 vs nginx
> config. I reached out to some friends of mine who are drupal
> core developers, and essentially it boils down to this: They
> don't have an official nginx config, so they don't test drupal
> releases on nginx except manually, only in response to bug
> reports. So nginx-related bugs tend to get released to the
> public, and they tend to take a long time before they're
> resolved. This is a major problem for anybody running drupal on
> nginx, because any drupal security updates that come out can't
> be applied as long as some other drupal-nginx bug is
> show-stopping. Case in point: The incident that recently forced
> me into all this was when one of our site maintainers tried to
> update drupal core 8.2.7 to 8.3.5 in order to get security fixes
> released in 8.3.4, but after the update, the site ended up
> completely broken. The root cause of that one is related to
> nginx config - and that issue is solved by updating to the
> latest nginx drupal 8 recipe
> (https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/drupal/).
> Unfortunately, the new recipe causes Responsive Images to break,
> so we still can't publish the updated website to production.
>
> So now I'm reaching out to all you lovely nginx developers to
> find out if there's any chance of improving this. It would mean
> some of you (probably whoever wrote the drupal 8 nginx recipe)
> working with drupal developers probably on an ongoing basis, to
> create and maintain an official nginx config that they test on.

The recipes as found in the wiki are user-contributed, much like
all the wiki contents. Please don't expect that nginx developers
understand anything about Drupal and/or worked on these recipes.

If you have anything to improve in the recipe, feel free to
contribute.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/
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