Set up Statamic on SpinupWP

I have a nice Linode (affiliate link) server and managed by SpinupWP (affiliate link) and I host several WordPress sites on it, including my personal sites.

I have been looking for alternatives to WordPress and Statamic is the one I would love to try the most. The only caveat is that I don't want to set up a new server to host a Statamic site, especially I just wanted to explore and play around a bit.

The below is how I created a new site on this current server.

Create a blank new site on SpinupWP

When adding a new site to your SpinupWP server, you can choose to "Not install any files" and that's what I wanted. I created a Database with this site but at the moment, this Statamic site is not using a Database.

Install Statamic on this new site

The server set up by SpinupWP didn't come with the Statamic Cli so we need to install it. I installed with the site user so I have to access the cli tool via ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/statamic.

SpinupWP hosts your site in ~/files and it is the default public folder.

So I cd to ~/files and my install command is like ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/statamic new statamic. It then created a statamic folder in ~/files.

After following all instructions on the cli screen, I then went to the site Settings on SpinupWP and set the Public Folder to /statamic/public/ (with the prefix /sites/next.1fix.io/files that you cannot change).

Nginx config changes

The most tricky part is to identy what needs to be added/changed to the Nginx config.

In the default Nginx config of the site, the following block has to be removed/commented out:

location / {
       try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

Becasue Statamic will add its own location block.

Then I split the Nginx config recommanded by Statamic into two files:

server/statamic.config

    set $try_location @static;
 
    if ($request_method != GET) {
        set $try_location @not_static;
    }
 
    if ($args ~* "live-preview=(.*)") {
        set $try_location @not_static;
    }
 
    location / {
        try_files $uri $try_location;
    }
 
    location @static {
        try_files /static${uri}_$args.html $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }
 
    location @not_static {
        try_files $uri /index.php?$args;
    }
 
    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    #location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
 
    error_page 404 /index.php;
 
    #location ~ \.php$ {
    #    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;
    #    fastcgi_index index.php;
    #    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    #    include fastcgi_params;
    #}
 
    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }

Note that I have commented out a certain blocks to prevent conflicts with SpinupWP.

location/statamic.conf

        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params

With them, after testing the config and reload Ningx, the Statamic is up and running on the domain https://next.1fix.io.

I will soon knowing if things are working for me or not. And I'll report back here.