PHPbb

phpbb is a bulletin board service written in php. In our example setup we will run it through fpm as a fast-cgi gateway.

Add the following to your nginx configuration:

location ~ \.php(/|$) {
  auth_request /auth/query_auth;

  auth_request_set $user $upstream_http_x_gsuite_user;
  fastcgi_param REMOTE_USER $user;

  # -- include /etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
  fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/?.+)$;
  try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;
  set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
  fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
  fastcgi_index index.php;
  include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
  # -- end of snippets/fastcgi-php.conf

  fastcgi_pass unix:/workdir/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}

In order to take advantage of oauthsub as the authenticator, we need to install the Remote User plugin (phpbb forum page).

Download the zip file, and extract it to phpBB/ext/cheshirekow/remoteuseauth. Once installed, go to the administrator control panel and activate it (see the github README for screenshots).