Nginx requires 2x reloads when changing the project folder to start in Laragon

[joaowars776]

I made a Portable Server for the game [Club-Penguin], I had to change the .tpl of nginx.conf because when changing folders, it reset to the .tpl inside /usr/tpl. What I did was add the server's correct nginx.conf to this tpl (and also Laragon's nginx.conf tpl) so that it restarts for the same purpose (since I used the name change method, it will be configured).

It worked perfectly, but the user needs to do the following:

1. Start Nginx for the first time in a new folder.
2. Activate Nginx and click Reload twice (it has to be exactly twice, and both times a warning will appear 'Oops, Nginx is not running! No need to reload').
3. When turning Nginx off and on again after reloading twice, it asks for firewall confirmation, and it works perfectly after, also the reload are maded successfully after.

I don't know if it's a bug or something, but this method worked for me, but I still decided to report.

You can follow this at minute 1:40 of my blog post. Video:
https://youtu.be/HK8L7f3-kUE?si=zEZWI5CesVK7LJkz&t=99

Sorry if I can't post a link here. It's not my intention to disclosure something mine, but rather to describe the problem in practice.

[leokhoa]

@joaowars776 : Many thanks for your information. I will find a way to make it better.

[joaowars776]

Just being more direct about this topic now that I've been working on it a bit more in the last few days and understand it better.

You need to restart Nginx twice IF something with a directory is configured (like configured D:/Portable/AnyServer/Laragon... for something within Nginx.conf) for anything.

That is, what's in Nginx.conf is configured for a directory in D:/Portable, but you're running it from C:/. So, since Nginx isn't auto-configuring the directory the first time, restarting twice causes the .tpl version to be loaded, and when that .tpl version loads, it ends up resetting to the current directory, which is what Nginx should do by default. So, that's the problem: you end up having to restart every time you change pages if you need to use a direct link.

So, the point is this: if Nginx could auto-configure the direct directories within Nginx.conf every time it opens, without resetting to the .tpl content in usr/, then it would be perfect, this was the method I found without the user having to manually change the directory each time he moves the content to another place

Not having any kind of direct directory makes Nginx work normally

[leokhoa]

@joaowars776 : This issue is resolved in Laragon v8.6.0.
https://github.com/leokhoa/laragon/releases/tag/8.6.0