drupal 8 nginx setup

Ok more info:

My cunning plan was to get this installed

https://www.contentacms.org/

All goes well until:

server {
server_name contenta.local.com;
root /var/www/contenta.local.com; ## <-- Your only path reference.

seems my problem is similar to https://groups.drupal.org/node/518846

when i go to http://contenta.local.com i get

No input file specified.

when I go to http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php i see the site but none of the links work. I tried changing the server to /var/www/contents.local.co/web but the result is the same.(with nginx restart)

location / {
    # try_files $uri @rewrite; # For Drupal <= 6
    try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string; # For Drupal >= 7
}

location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
}

if I go to http://contenta.local.com/web no index.php shows up, I have to append it to the url, Entries in the location block for D6 and D7 but nothing for drupal 8. What's the magical line of code to get drupal 8 working?

The only lines of I changed in the https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/drupal/ are the top 2, ie server name and root.

Any ideas guys?

oops forgot to post nginx error log:

2018/10/12 13:56:58 [notice] 8814#8814: signal process started
2018/10/12 13:59:08 [error] 8818#8818: *253 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /web/?0 HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 13:59:08 [error] 8818#8818: *253 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /web/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 13:59:09 [error] 8818#8818: *256 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /profiles/contrib/contenta_jsonapi/modules/contenta_enhancements/logo.svg HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 13:59:09 [error] 8818#8818: *256 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /web/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 14:01:03 [error] 8818#8818: *296 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com"
2018/10/12 14:02:10 [error] 8818#8818: *306 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /web/index.php/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 14:02:19 [error] 8818#8818: *306 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /web/index.php/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 14:09:56 [error] 8818#8818: *376 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /admin/content HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 17:09:11 [error] 643#643: *1017 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com"
2018/10/12 17:09:25 [error] 643#643: *1017 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /web/?0 HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"
2018/10/12 17:09:25 [error] 643#643: *1017 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Unable to open primary script: /var/www/contenta.local.com/index.php (No such file or directory)" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: contenta.local.com, request: "GET /profiles/contrib/contenta_jsonapi/modules/contenta_enhancements/logo.svg HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock:", host: "contenta.local.com", referrer: "http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php"

As I said in my previous post, tried that:

"when I go to http://contenta.local.com/web/index.php i see the site but none of the links work. I tried changing the server to /var/www/contents.local.co/web but the result is the same.(with nginx restart)"

not touched the nginx.conf file, so not sure what to try next.

Following up on the so called nginx recipe from:
https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/drupal/

server {
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/example.com; ## <-- Your only path reference.

Using the above code the webisite throws a "No input file specified. "

When I change it to:

server {
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/example.com/web; ## <-- Your only path reference.

The website is reachable, but all the image paths are all wrong with pre-installed content and hitting the myaccount link results in Access denied, the link http://example.com/index.php/user should be http://example.com/index.php/user/1 so the drupal 8 site is expecting the root to be /var/www/example.com and not /var/www/example.com/web, there has to be something wrong with official nginx drupal recipe. I must be missing a re-write rule or something like that, Any ideas guys?

ok started anew, installed drupal 8 as suggested, no problems whatsover. then onto the updated contenta. Started with the official nginx repo, same issues as before, tried https://github.com/contentacms/contenta_docker/blob/master/nginx/conf/dr... for nginx conf but get a 404 not found, here's what i changed to get get sudo nginx -t to run:

https://github.com/contentacms/contenta_docker/blob/master/nginx/conf/drupal.conf

server {
listen 80;

fastcgi_keep_conn on;
root /var/www/contenta.local.com/web;
index index.php;

### Nginx configuration for Drupal 7 and 8. This configuration makes use of
### drush (http:///drupal.org/project/drush) for site maintenance
### and like tasks:
###
### 1. Run the cronjobs.
### 2. Run the DB and code updates: drush up or drush upc followed by
### drush updb to run any DB updates required by the code upgrades
### that were performed.
### 3. Disabling of xmlrpc.xml and update.php: all updates are now
### handled through drush.

## If ssl terminator had ssl, we're passing that on
if ($http_x_forwarded_proto = 'https') {
set $fastcgi_https "on";
}

## rewriting /index.php to / because after https://www.drupal.org/node/2599326
## autocomplete URLs are forced to go to index.php
rewrite ^/index.php / last;

## The 'default' location.
location / {

  ## Disallow access to any dot files
  location ~ /\. {
      deny all;
      access_log off;
      log_not_found off;
  }

  ## Replicate the Apache <FilesMatch> directive of Drupal standard
  ## .htaccess. Disable access to any code files. Return a 404 to curtail
  ## information disclosure. Hide also the text files.
  location ~* ^(?:.+\.(?:htaccess|make|txt|yml|md||engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|po|pot|sh|.*sql|test|theme|tpl(?:\.php)?|xtmpl)|code-style\.pl)$ {
      deny all;
      access_log off;
      log_not_found off;
  }

  ## Expiring per default for four weeks and one second, Drupal will overwrite that if necessary
  expires 2628001s;

  ## First we try the URI and relay to the /index.php?q=$escaped_uri&$args if not found.
  try_files $uri @drupal;

}

########### Security measures ##########

## Restrict access to the strictly necessary PHP files. Reducing the
## scope for exploits. Handling of PHP code and the Drupal event loop.
location @drupal {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root/index.php;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
### fastcgi_pass ${NGINX_FASTCGI_PASS:-php}:9000; ### Changed to line above
}

## Trying to access private files directly returns a 404.
location /sites/default/files/private/ {
internal;
}

## Disallow access to patches directory.
location ^~ /patches {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}

## Disallow access to backup directory.
location ^~ /backup {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}

## Disallow access to vagrant directory.
location ^~ /vagrant {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}

## Disallow access to /core/vendor.
location ^~ /core/vendor {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}

## Disallow access to /vendor.
location ^~ /vendor {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}

## Disable access logs for robots.txt.
location = /robots.txt {
access_log off;
## Add support for the robotstxt module
## http://drupal.org/project/robotstxt.
try_files $uri @drupal;
}

location = /humans.txt {
access_log off;
## Add support for the humanstxt module
## http://drupal.org/project/humanstxt.
try_files $uri @drupal;
}

## Support for favicon. Return an 1x1 transparent GIF if it doesn't
## exist.
location = /favicon.ico {
expires 30d;
try_files /favicon.ico @empty;
}

## Return an in memory 1x1 transparent GIF.
location @empty {
expires 30d;
empty_gif;
}

# Any other attempt to access PHP files does not have access.
location ~* ^.+.php$ {
deny all;
}

### Directives for installing drupal.
location = /install.php {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
#### changed to line above: fastcgi_pass ${NGINX_FASTCGI_PASS:-php}:9000;
}
### Directives for installing drupal.
location = /core/install.php {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
#### changed to line above fastcgi_pass ${NGINX_FASTCGI_PASS:-php}:9000;
}

}

worker_processes 1;

error_log logs/error.log;
pid logs/nginx.pid;

events {
# Max value 16384
worker_connections 8192;
# Accept multiple connections
multi_accept on;
}

Settings that affect all server blocks

http {
include php_processes.conf;
include mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

access_log  logs/access.log;

sendfile on;

keepalive_timeout  65;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2 TLSv1.1 TLSv1 SSLv3;
ssl_ciphers ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES:RSA+AES:RSA+3DES:!ADH:!AECDH:!MD5:!DSS;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
gzip  on;
# http server

Begin HTTP Server

server {
listen 80; # IPv4
server_name localhost;

## Parametrization using hostname of access and log filenames.
access_log logs/localhost_access.log;
error_log logs/localhost_error.log;

## Root and index files.
root C:/Wnmp/html/drupal;
index  index.php index.html index.htm;

## If no favicon exists return a 204 (no content error).
location = /favicon.ico {
    try_files $uri =204;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

## Don't log robots.txt requests.
location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^ index.php?$query_string last;

}

## Try the requested URI as files before handling it to PHP.

location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;


    ## Regular PHP processing.
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   php_processes;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    ## Static files
    location ~* \.(?:css|gif|htc|ico|js|jpe?g|png|swf)$ {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
        ## Set the OS file cache.
        open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=120s;
        open_file_cache_valid 45s;
        open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
        open_file_cache_errors off;
    }

    ## Keep a tab on the 'big' static files.
    location ~* ^.+\.(?:ogg|pdf|pptx?)$ {
        expires 30d;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
    }
    } # / location

}

End HTTP Server

Begin HTTPS Server

server {
listen 443 http2 ssl;
server_name localhost;
ssl_certificate cert.pem;
ssl_certificate_key key.pem;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;

## Parametrization using hostname of access and log filenames.
access_log logs/localhost_access.log;
error_log logs/localhost_error.log;

## Root and index files.
root C:/Wnmp/html/drupal;
index  index.php index.html index.htm;

## If no favicon exists return a 204 (no content error).
location = /favicon.ico {

    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}

## Don't log robots.txt requests.
location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
}
location @rewrite {
    rewrite ^ index.php?$query_string last;

}

## Try the requested URI as files before handling it to PHP.
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$query_string;


    ## Regular PHP processing.
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   php_processes;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    ## Static files are served directly.
    location ~* \.(?:css|gif|htc|ico|js|jpe?g|png|swf)$ {
      try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
        ## Set the OS file cache.
        open_file_cache max=1000 inactive=120s;
        open_file_cache_valid 45s;
        open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
        open_file_cache_errors off;
    }

    ## Keep a tab on the 'big' static files.
    location ~* ^.+\.(?:ogg|pdf|pptx?)$ {
        expires 30d;
        ## No need to bleed constant updates. Send the all shebang in one
        ## fell swoop.
        tcp_nodelay off;
    }
    } # / location

} # End HTTPS Server
}