Hi guys,
I install wordpress on Lemp on 16.04 ( this was installed using the via DO droplet) following this tutorial https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-16-04 everything went well, but when I changed the permalinks to post-name since then apart from the home page anything else returns with this error ( 404 Not Found nginx/1.10.0 (Ubuntu) ) now I did of course followed the instruction for making changes in the /etc/nginx/sites-available/default take a look at my file below
GNU nano 2.5.3 File: /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server; # SSL configuration # # listen 443 ssl default_server; # listen [::]:443 ssl default_server; # # Note: You should disable gzip for SSL traffic. # See: https://bugs.debian.org/773332 # # Read up on ssl_ciphers to ensure a secure configuration. # See: https://bugs.debian.org/765782 # # Self signed certs generated by the ssl-cert package # Don’t use them in a production server! # # include snippets/snakeoil.conf;
root /var/www/html;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
http {
index index.html index.htm index.php index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name _;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
#try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
#location ~ \.php$ {
# include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
#
# # With php7.0-cgi alone:
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# # With php7.0-fpm:
# fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
#}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
#location ~ /\.ht {
# deny all;
#}
location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }
location ~* \.(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
I didn’t follow the instructions for installing ssl because this is test and I m did made another user with sudo privileges but there was nothing in the tutorial about switching to non root user at any point, so I continued using the root user for all the process. I m completely new to this so can someone please help me with this. Also I have a sub domain that has it’s own WordPress installation but would be placed in the same dictionary and I m also planing on installing Vanilla forum as a subdomain or example.com/forum. For now I m just doing this on test environment using DO droplet and the ip address as the domain. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Make sure you have your WordPress site stored in /var/www/html
and set correct permissions on /var/www/html
and it’s content. To check, the following simple ls
command will do the job:
- ls -ld /var/www/html
Also, for content:
- ls -l /var/www/html
Recommended permissions are sammy:www-data
, where sammy
is your non-root user. If it’s not like that, you can set them by running:
- sudo chown -R sammy:www-data /var/www/html
Also, make sure you have WordPress unpacked in /var/www/html
and not in /var/www/html/wordpress
or anything similar.
You can also post result of ls -l /var/www/html
, so we’re sure you did it right.
If nothing helps, best bet are to check logs. Check for latest entries in /var/log/nginx/error.log
and /var/log/nginx/access.log
. The first one is the most relevant and will probably tell you the reason of error. If you’re not sure how to debug it, you can post it here (make sure to redact any sensible information).
As of forum and another WP site. You can’t do it like you explained.
First, you can’t have two WP sites in one directory. The best way would be to create appropriate directories in /var/www
for each site. For example in /var/www/example.com
store WordPress site running on main domain - example.com
, and in /var/www/subdomain.example.com
store site running on the subdomain.
As for forum, I wouldn’t recommend using example.com/forum
as it can break WordPress permalinks. Do it with subdomains, on the same way I explained above - create directory for it, e.g. /var/www/forum.example.com
and store it there.
All this would require you to create appropriate Nginx server blocks and the How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks (Virtual Hosts) on Ubuntu 16.04 will show you how to do it.
Thanks to all, adding this > try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; to sites available worked for me.
I had the same issue after I installed the nginx on my server. The error was caused by some bad statements in my conf file. I just had to add this to the conf file:
I used this tutorial, check maybe it will help.
Please am having problem with my debian nginx php configuration. here’s my conf file
Am hosting django in my main domain and i want to host php app called portal by typing domain/portal
but am getting 404 error
server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; server_name xxxxxxx;
}
So I reinstalled everything and setup a new server but still getting the same error below is the error.log and etc/nginx/sites-available/default. @xMudrii @jcolyer
error.log
2017/08/11 21:32:45 [notice] 2139#2139: signal process started 2017/08/11 22:03:34 [notice] 23682#23682: signal process started
etc/nginx/sites-available/default.
You should look at the following URL’s in order to grasp a solid understanding
of Nginx configuration files in order to fully unleash the power of Nginx.
http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls
http://wiki.nginx.org/QuickStart
http://wiki.nginx.org/Configuration
Generally, you will want to move this file somewhere, and start with a clean
file but keep this around for reference. Or just disable in sites-enabled.
Please see /usr/share/doc/nginx-doc/examples/ for more detailed examples.
Default server configuration
server { listen 80 default_server; listen [::]:80 default_server;
}
Virtual Host configuration for example.com
You can move that to a different file under sites-available/ and symlink that
to sites-enabled/ to enable it.
#server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com;
root /var/www/example.com;
index index.html;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
#}
I installed Nginx Helper WP Plugin as well and I see some error related to the plugin as well So I m going to setup a fresh server and install everything again and will then update this page to get some help if still facing issue which I think I will. Thank you @jcolyer and @xMudrii, Thank you for your precious time.
Greetings!
Sounds like the redirects needed for WordPress are not present in the Nginx configuration. This would explain why changing the permalinks resulted in those nasty 404s. Generally you can find the exact coding needed at this WordPress codex page.