Hi, Last evening I installed Wordpress on a fresh, SSL, LEMP stack. I’ve done this several times now, following do’s excellent tutorials.
Everything runs great, except on every install, the modal windows used in a few places within Wordpress admin side always open blank.
The easiest place to see this is when clicking the “plugin details” link on any plugin in the plugin list. Likewise, if trying to use the Customizer, the “live” view of the website is blank.
Both are basically trying to pull data from external links into a modal window.
Is there some nginx config adjustment necessary, or firewall perhaps, to facilitate this??
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My first guess would be that you haven’t installed Curl (or php-curl), since the plugin details page is actually being downloaded to your server and then displayed to you. So it’s actually not displaying external links in the modal window. Or it could be a firewall that is blocking outbound traffic, but that would be something that you’ve setup.
Thanks @hansen. That gives me a place to start. I will take a look at both to confirm.
Please post the server block for one of your WordPress installations in full so we can take a look at the configuration and see if there’s anything there that may be causing issues.
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