Enabling Nginx mod_rewrite

I followed the tutorial here (https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-16-04) to setup Wordpress on NGINX and at the end of it I get the 404 page. I had

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

in but that was giving the generic 404 - so I went back to

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

and I get a custom 404 I built. HOWEVER I am not getting the Wordpress index.php (gives the 404) but I can get the default DigitalOcean index.html

I have the following:

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

Should I just replace the above line with

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

Or should I add it as a new line? Just curious about that before I commit to the change.

Thank you Brian

I have the following:

try_files $uri $uri/ =404;

Should I just replace the above line with

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

Or should I add it as a new line? Just curious about that before I commit to the change.

Thank you Brian

My WORKED solution…! Already its mentioned by “UKn0Me March 7, 2015”

Plz follow:

1. Use filezilla, login to your SSH-FTP using top level SSH user (may ‘root’)
2. Goto the path “/home/Domain-UserName/conf/web/nginx.conf”
3. Probably you should see…

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; Here, Nginx checks for the existence of a file at the URL ($uri), then for a directory ($uri/). If it doesn’t find a directory or a file, it performs an internal redirect to /index.php passing the query string arguments as parameters.

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

4. If your blog is in a subfolder (say /wordpress), you’ll have to add an extra location /wordpress/ block to your configuration file :

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

Restart NGINX (or) may be whole server.

My server configs are: DigitalOcean, Ubuntu 14x, Vesta Nginx+php-fpm, Wordpress on subfolder.

Nginx does not support .htaccess files.

On CentOS Nginx stores virtual host files in /etc/nginx/conf.d. I assume you’re using the default.conf file. So edit this file and find the following:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

and make the following change:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

Save the file and reload Nginx:

sudo service nginx reload

Nginx does not support .htaccess files.

On CentOS Nginx stores virtual host files in /etc/nginx/conf.d. I assume you’re using the default.conf file. So edit this file and find the following:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

and make the following change:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

Save the file and reload Nginx:

sudo service nginx reload

Nginx does not support .htaccess files.

On CentOS Nginx stores virtual host files in /etc/nginx/conf.d. I assume you’re using the default.conf file. So edit this file and find the following:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

and make the following change:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

Save the file and reload Nginx:

sudo service nginx reload

Nginx does not support .htaccess files.

On CentOS Nginx stores virtual host files in /etc/nginx/conf.d. I assume you’re using the default.conf file. So edit this file and find the following:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

and make the following change:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

Save the file and reload Nginx:

sudo service nginx reload

Nginx does not support .htaccess files.

On CentOS Nginx stores virtual host files in /etc/nginx/conf.d. I assume you’re using the default.conf file. So edit this file and find the following:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

and make the following change:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

Save the file and reload Nginx:

sudo service nginx reload

Nginx does not support .htaccess files.

On CentOS Nginx stores virtual host files in /etc/nginx/conf.d. I assume you’re using the default.conf file. So edit this file and find the following:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
    }

and make the following change:

    location / {
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

Save the file and reload Nginx:

sudo service nginx reload