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Nginx + Wordpress Permalinks issue

Posted on November 11, 2019

Nginx

By StoneDB

Hi all,

having an issue with my pretty permalink and wordpress. I think it’s an issue with my nginx conf.

Homepage works great Article = 404 WP-admin = 404

Here is my conf: https://github.com/stonedb00/stonedb/blob/master/nginx

Maybe someone have a solution.

Thanks a lot

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aalamsa

March 25, 2020

Seems this question is so common with Wordpress and Nginx and I think cuz so many tutorials online are assuming that you use Apache in backend of your Nginx…

Anyway just simple fix for permalinks is usually the try_files code:

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

See the full Nginx server block examples

https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/nginx/default-single-site.txt

alexdo

November 11, 2019

Hello, @StoneDB

Did you installed WordPress manually or you’ve followed our tutorial:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-18-04

If you believe that the issue is with the nginx configuration file you can use the default nginx configuration file suggested from WordPress support team itself:

https://wordpress.org/support/article/nginx/

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards, Alex

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