How to configure Nginx for WordPress permalinks

by Vivek Gite on February 4, 2017 last updated February 4, 2017 I switched from Apache to Nginx web server. How do I configure permalinks under WordPress blog?WordPress has the ability capacity to create a custom URL structure for your blog posts and archives. There are three basic types of WordPress permalinks:

Ugly: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/?p=2284

Pretty using mod_rewrite: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/bash-for-loop/

Almost pretty using PHP PATHINFO: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/index.php/bash-for-loop/

In the Settings ? Permalinks panel, you can choose one of the more common permalink structures as follows:

Fig.01: WordPress permalinks: Choosing your permalink structure

Edit your nginx.conf file, run:$ sudo vi /etc/nginx/site-enabled/cyberciti.biz.confEdit/add/append the following location block within the server block:

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

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

If your WordPress blog is in /faq/ sub-directory, try:

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

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

Save and close the file. Restart/reload your nginx server, run:$ sudo systemctl reload nginxOR$ sudo /usr/sbin/nginx -s reloadHere is my sample config file:

# Upstream to abstract backend connection(s) for PHP. upstream php { server unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; } server { server_name www.cyberciti.biz; root /var/www/html; location /faq/ { try_files $uri $uri/ /faq/index.php?$args; } #Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests. rewrite /faq/wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent; # Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging. location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max; } # Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server. index index.php; location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$; if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) { return 404; } # This is a robust solution for path info security issue and works with "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1" in /etc/php.ini (default) include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_pass php; } }

# Upstream to abstract backend connection(s) for PHP. upstream php { server unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock; } server { server_name www.cyberciti.biz; root /var/www/html;location /faq/ { try_files $uri $uri/ /faq/index.php?$args; }#Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests. rewrite /faq/wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging. location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max; }# Pass all .php files onto a php-fpm/php-fcgi server. index index.php; location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) { fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$; if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) { return 404; } # This is a robust solution for path info security issue and works with "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1" in /etc/php.ini (default) include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; fastcgi_index index.php ; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_pass php; } }

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