Question

error loading wordpress

I just installed wordpress on my LEMP server. When I attempted to access it to set it up via Firefox browser it came back with the the following popup:

You have chosen to open:
which is: application/octet-stream (420 bytes) from https://mydomain.com

Before installing wordpress I set up a test site with all of the components of the LEMP server. I had configured my firewall for https and had acquired my SSL certificates. This site worked perfectly.

Given that my test site worked properly, the problem has to be in the wordpress installation. To install wordpress, I followed the instructions in the tutorial “How to Install WordPress with LEMP on Ubuntu 18.04” to the letter.

Does anyone have an idea what went wrong and how to fix it?

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Bobby Iliev • July 25, 2019
Accepted Answer

Hello,

I believe that something is not correct with the Wordpress Nginx server block, would you mind sharing the Nginx configuration file here so that I could have a look and advice you further?

Regards, Bobby

Wayne Knight • July 25, 2019

[Example link](file:///etc/nginx/sites-available/wrkblock) Never tried using this link before so I’m not sure it will work. As a backup, I’ll simply copy the file contents below. Please let me know if the file got attached.

server {

listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
listen [::]:443 ssl ipv6only=on; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/musingsofamaverick.org/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/musingsofamaverick.org/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot

root /var/www/wordpress;
index index.html index.htm index.php;

server_name musingsofamaverick.org www.musingsofamaverick.org;

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

location ~ \.php$ {
	include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
}

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;
}

}

server { if ($host = www.musingsofamaverick.org) { return 301 https://$host$request_uri; } # managed by Certbot

if ($host = musingsofamaverick.org) {
   return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot


listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;

server_name musingsofamaverick.org www.musingsofamaverick.org;
return 404; # managed by Certbot

}