WHMCS NGINX Rewrite Rules for Version 8.1.3

[JayV]

My friend Bala gave me a hand with these rules for nginx.

  #== WHMCS Security Advisory 2020-01-28
  location ^~ /whmcs/vendor/ {
    deny all;
    return 403;
  }
  #== WHMCS Admin Area
  location ~ /whmcs/admin/(client!\.php|client/(.*)|search!\.php|search/(.*)|apps|billing|setup|user|services|addons|domains|utilities|logs|help!\.php|help/license|image/(recent|upload))/?(.*)$ {
    root /path/to/website/root/folder;
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /whmcs/admin/index.php?rp=/admin/$1/$2;
  }
  #== WHMCS Client Area
  location ~ /whmcs/(images/em|invoice|login|password|account|store|download|knowledgebase|project_management|announcements|clientarea/ssl-certificates|user/(verification|accounts|profile|password|security|verify)|cart/(domain/renew)|cart/order|images/kb)/?(.*)$ {
    root /path/to/website/root/folder;
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /whmcs/index.php?rp=/$1/$2;
  }

Finish the task by completing the following:

1.  Log in to your WHMCS Admin
2.  Go to Configuration > General and change your "Friendly URLs" to "Full Friendly Rewrite"
3.  Go to Utilities > System > System Cleanup > Empty Template Cache
4.  Clear your cache at /var/cache/nginx/*
5.  Test Nginx with "nginx -t"
6.  Reload Nginx with "nginx -s reload"  

I hope this helps someone.

Cheers!



 

Edited April 19, 2021 by JayV

[mcpacific]

Apparently the "Login as Owner" function will not work with NGINX. Support is no help. Have you found a solution for that?

[Alliance]

Did you find any solution?

[xyzulu]

For client login, just add something like:

 location ~ /whmcs/admin/client/?(.*)/login/?(.*)$ {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /whmcs/admin/index.php?rp=/client/?(.*)/login/$1;
    }

 

[xyzulu]

I've dug into this subject, with a little help from here: 

Just in case more people search for this, I have also updated and provided a "vanilla" list of the nginx rules required here: https://gist.github.com/xyzulu/dbe2762c131b7bf3fbfc67056a565ae0

It would be good for WHMCS to support Nginx better.. a simple list of these rules in the documentation would be enough.. but anyway. 

[lulzkiller]

On 7/12/2023 at 12:20 AM, xyzulu said:

I've dug into this subject, with a little help from here: 

Just in case more people search for this, I have also updated and provided a "vanilla" list of the nginx rules required here: https://gist.github.com/xyzulu/dbe2762c131b7bf3fbfc67056a565ae0

It would be good for WHMCS to support Nginx better.. a simple list of these rules in the documentation would be enough.. but anyway. 

Hey, thanks for that.

How would you edit this if your WHMCS installation resides in public html, and not in client or any folder sub folder.

[xyzulu]

10 hours ago, lulzkiller said:

How would you edit this if your WHMCS installation resides in public html, and not in client or any folder sub folder.

/clients..

/admin..

Just remove the '/clients' from the start of the rewrite directives