Can't get Grav working on DigitalOcean with PHP 8.3

[tcherokee]

Hello there,

So I am trying to get Grav up and running on my digitalocean droplet (Ubuntu 24.04, php8.3). I've been following the digital ocean guide here (https://learn.getgrav.org/17/webservers-hosting/vps/digitalocean).

Everything seems goes well until the point where I update the nginx conf and then try and access the site. No matter what i try, I cannot get the index.html file to work. If I try and access it on the browser, I get a No input file specified. error. However the info.php file seems to work properly as I can see all the details of the server..

This is my grav.conf file. Which honestly is a clone of the one in the tutorial.

server {
    listen 80;
    index index.html index.php;

    ## Begin - Server Info
    root /home/grav/www/html;
    server_name localhost;
    ## End - Server Info

    ## Begin - Index
    # for subfolders, simply adjust:
    # `location /subfolder {`
    # and the rewrite to use `/subfolder/index.php`
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }
    ## End - Index

    ## Begin - Security
    # deny all direct access for these folders
    location ~* /(\.git|cache|bin|logs|backup|tests)/.*$ { return 403; }
    # deny running scripts inside core system folders
    location ~* /(system|vendor)/.*\.(txt|xml|md|html|yaml|yml|php|pl|py|cgi|twig|sh|bat)$ { return 403; }
    # deny running scripts inside user folder
    location ~* /user/.*\.(txt|md|yaml|yml|php|pl|py|cgi|twig|sh|bat)$ { return 403; }
    # deny access to specific files in the root folder
    location ~ /(LICENSE\.txt|composer\.lock|composer\.json|nginx\.conf|web\.config|htaccess\.txt|\.htaccess) { return 403; }
    ## End - Security

    ## Begin - PHP
    location ~ \.php$ {
        # Choose either a socket or TCP/IP address
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.3-fpm.sock;
        # fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; #legacy
        # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
    ## End - PHP
}

any help will be appreciated. I have tried most of the solutions from stack overflow regarding No input file specified. to no avail.

[tcherokee]

Figured it out. needed to add grav to the user section in the nginx.conf file

so it changed from this

user www-data;

user www-data grav;