Yii2 + Nginx(proxy) + Apache(back) - apache

Question

I'm learning NGINX and I need to set a frontend webserver with NGINX and a backend webserver with Apache using .htaccess
This is the content of /etc/nginx/sites-available/my_test5.loc
server {
charset utf-8;
client_max_body_size 128M;
listen 80;
server_name my_test5.loc;
root /var/www/my_test5.loc/web;
#root /var/www/my_test5.loc;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
# deny accessing php files for the /assets directory
location ~ ^/assets/.*\.php$ {
deny all;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}
location ~* /\. {
# deny all;
allow all;
}
}
This is the content of /etc/apache2/sites-available/my_test5.loc.conf
<VirtualHost *:8080>
<Directory /var/www/my_test5.loc/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ServerAdmin admin#my_test5.loc
ServerName my_test5.loc
ServerAlias www.my_test5.loc
DocumentRoot /var/www/my_test5.loc/web/
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Now all I have working is the main page. If I try to navigate to site/about for example I can't. What have I done wrong and how to use these 2 web servers?

Answer 1

I think your setup is only pointing correctly into index.php because of your location / {} directive, try editing your to be more permissive about your Apache access changing this block to pass through it and adding specific block to other kind of files, like assets.
location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js|ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|woff2)$ {
try_files $uri $uri/
}
This way NGINX serves your static files and Apache serves everything else.

Answer 2

For Nginx work
use .htaccess for apache
siteName.conf apache must be
siteName conf must be in nginx sites-available and sites-enable
be sure that you send request from 80 port to 8080(as in my case) and Apache are listening it