Nginx complaining about config error, what is wrong with my /etc/nginx/sites-available/seafile.conf

Seafile Server
1

i am trying to do a new clean setup of seafile with nginx on a debian 10 system using the manual as found on https://download.seafile.com/published/seafile-manual/deploy/README.md

However when i try to start nginx it allready complains at bootup about ningx, when i ask for a status it shows this:
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 132ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.046/0.049/0.054/0.006 ms
root@mycloud:/home/beheer# systemctl status nginx
● nginx.service - A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2020-04-26 19:02:44 CEST; 22min ago
Docs: man:nginx(8)

Apr 26 19:02:37 mycloud systemd[1]: Starting A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server…
Apr 26 19:02:44 mycloud nginx[499]: nginx: [emerg] unknown directive “<U+FEFF>” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/seafile.conf:5
Apr 26 19:02:44 mycloud nginx[499]: nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
Apr 26 19:02:44 mycloud systemd[1]: nginx.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Apr 26 19:02:44 mycloud systemd[1]: nginx.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.
Apr 26 19:02:44 mycloud systemd[1]: Failed to start A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server.
root@mycloud:/home/beheer# ^C
root@mycloud:/home/beheer#

tryiing to setup cert-bot it shows
Saving debug log to /var/log/letsencrypt/letsencrypt.log
Error while running nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t.

nginx: [emerg] unknown directive “server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/seafile.conf:3
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed

The nginx plugin is not working; there may be problems with your existing configuration.
The error was: MisconfigurationError(‘Error while running nginx -c /etc/nginx/nginx.conf -t.\n\nnginx: [emerg] unknown directive “\ufeffserver” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/seafile.conf:3\nnginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed\n’)
root@mycloud:/home/beheer# nano /etc/nginx/sites-enabled//seafile.conf

It seems something is wrong wtih my seafile.conf which i took from this page
https://download.seafile.com/published/seafile-manual/deploy/deploy_with_nginx.md

so this how my seafile.conf looks like

log_format seafileformat '$http_x_forwarded_for $remote_addr [$time_local] “$request” $status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” “$http_user_agent” $

server {
listen 80;
server_name mycloud.isgeweldig.net;

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;

location / {
     proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8000;
     proxy_set_header   Host $host;
     proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
     proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
     proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
     proxy_read_timeout  1200s;

     # used for view/edit office file via Office Online Server

     client_max_body_size 0;

     access_log      /var/log/nginx/seahub.access.log seafileformat;
     error_log       /var/log/nginx/seahub.error.log;
}

If you are using FastCGI,

which is not recommended, you should use the following config for location /.

location / {

fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8000;

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;

fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;

fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;

fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;

fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;

fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;

fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;

fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;

fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;

fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;

fastcgi_read_timeout 36000;

client_max_body_size 0;

access_log /var/log/nginx/seahub.access.log;

error_log /var/log/nginx/seahub.error.log;

}

location /seafhttp {
    rewrite ^/seafhttp(.*)$ $1 break;
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8082;
    client_max_body_size 0;
    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

    proxy_connect_timeout  36000s;
    proxy_read_timeout  36000s;
    proxy_send_timeout  36000s;

    send_timeout  36000s;

    access_log      /var/log/nginx/seafhttp.access.log seafileformat;
    error_log       /var/log/nginx/seafhttp.error.log;
}
location /media {
    root /home/user/haiwen/seafile-server-latest/seahub;
}

}

Does anybody know what is wrong with my seafile.conf

2

It is hard to imagine a more precise message:
nginx: [emerg] unknown directive “server” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/seafile.conf:3

In other words, the problem begins in row 3. So because row 3 is empty, the problem is probably in row 2. And, you will find, when you look:

Compare with this: https://download.seafile.com/published/seafile-manual/deploy/deploy_with_nginx.md

3

i think you are pointing me to line 1
However nginx complains about line 3, because when i ad 4 emtpy lines
ningx starts to complain about line 7

nginx: [emerg] unknown directive “” in /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/seafile.conf:7 <<<<
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
root@mycloud:/opt/seafile#

Line 7 is:

og_format seafileformat '$http_x_forwarded_for $remote_addr [$time_local] “$request” $status $body_bytes_sent “$http_referer” “$http_user_agent” $

server { <<<<<<<
listen 80;
server_name mycloud.isgeweldig.net;

BUT, there seems to be NOTHING wrong with line 7 if compare it to the manual:
https://download.seafile.com/published/seafile-manual/deploy/deploy_with_nginx.md

anybody more thoughts??

4

There is a byte-order mark (U+FEFF) in your configuration file. Apparently, nginx does not like it and you have to remove it from the file.

5

What are you saying? Compare the manual and your config! Your row ends with “$”, it mus be a semi-colon.