Nginx & Wordpress issues

May 23, 2013 8.4k views
alex69698
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Hello! I'm having a hard time with nginx & wordpress. Specifically I installed/configured WP on http://www.busybabybook.com/blog/ and all seems to be ok EXCEPT for the fact that in the wp-admin/ I can't see: Media, Posts return an "Invalid post type", there are no Pages (but in fact I have 2: Contact and About). Also, i would like to redirect www.busybabybook.com to www.busybabybook.com/blog/ but i've got no idea how to make this work without any problems in nginx. Thank you in advance for helping out! Regards, Alex
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alex69698 May 24, 2013
Really? Nobody to help out?
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antonysmith May 24, 2013
I'd just start again dude, if you use the instructions in the articles and tutorials there is a step by step guide which is spot on!

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-ubuntu-12-04
How To Install Wordpress with nginx on Ubuntu 12.04
by Etel Sverdlov
Wordpress is a free and open source website and blogging tool that uses php and MySQL. It was created in 2003 and has since then expanded to manage 22% of all the new websites created and has over 20,000 plugins to customize its functionality. This tutorial shows how to install Wordpress on a server with LEMP (with nginx instead of apache). It is written for Ubuntu 12.04.
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antonysmith May 24, 2013
Oh and once you're done install memcache and the w3 total cache and it freakin' fly's!
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alex69698 May 26, 2013
The problem is that I need to install Wordpress in a folder /blog not in the root folder.

This is where Nginx gives me issues :)
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kamaln7 MOD May 27, 2013
@alex: I suggest you take a look at http://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx, especially the "WordPress Multisite Subdirectory rules" section.
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kamaln7 MOD May 27, 2013
@alex: Actually, try this first: http://wiki.nginx.org/WordPress - "Non-root try_files to URL redirect".
If that doesn't fix your problem, see my previous comment.
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jduvall8641 December 16, 2013
From what I've read elsewhere, this error "Invalid post type" can be caused by different things.
I found, however, that in my case it was caused by the line that the Nginx devs suggest inserting into your php block from http://wiki.nginx.org/WordPress:

fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/wordpress)(/.*)$;

Commenting this line out and restarting nginx solved the issue. It also solved a problem that was racking my brain where I would get an error: "You are not authorized to view this page." while accessing certain Admin pages. The Nginx support page might be out of date.

I'm a total noob on regex and nginx blocks so I don;t fully understand what it was supposed to do in the first place.
Hope this helps.
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