Hi there,

I’m trying to get the W3TC Wordpress plugin to work alongside ‘Post name’ Permalinks, but there appears to be a conflict with the code when I include the W3TC nginx.conf file into the location block.

To enable 'post name’ to work for the Wordpress Permalinks, I added:

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

to the following nginx config file:
/etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.com

which worked brilliantly.

To get W3TC to work, I then added another line of code to include the W3TC nginx.conf file as follows:

location / { 
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; 
include /home/domain/public_html/nginx.conf; 
}

The problem is that now W3TC works, but the Permalinks don’t (I get a 404 error when trying to access a web page in my browser) which means there has to be some conflict somewhere.

I’ve pasted the W3TC nginx.conf code below:

# BEGIN W3TC Minify cache
location ~ /wp-content/cache/minify.*\.js$ {
    types {}
    default_type application/x-javascript;
    add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
}
location ~ /wp-content/cache/minify.*\.css$ {
    types {}
    default_type text/css;
    add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
}
location ~ /wp-content/cache/minify.*js\.gzip$ {
    gzip off;
    types {}
    default_type application/x-javascript;
    add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
    add_header Content-Encoding gzip;
}
location ~ /wp-content/cache/minify.*css\.gzip$ {
    gzip off;
    types {}
    default_type text/css;
    add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
    add_header Content-Encoding gzip;
}
# END W3TC Minify cache
# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache cache
location ~ /wp-content/cache/page_enhanced.*html$ {
    add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding, Cookie";
}
location ~ /wp-content/cache/page_enhanced.*gzip$ {
    gzip off;
    types {}
    default_type text/html;
    add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding, Cookie";
    add_header Content-Encoding gzip;
}
# END W3TC Page Cache cache
# BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache
gzip on;
gzip_types text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon;
# END W3TC Browser Cache
# BEGIN W3TC Minify core
rewrite ^/wp-content/cache/minify.*/w3tc_rewrite_test$ /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/minify.php?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 last;
set $w3tc_enc "";
if ($http_accept_encoding ~ gzip) {
    set $w3tc_enc .gzip;
}
if (-f $request_filename$w3tc_enc) {
    rewrite (.*) $1$w3tc_enc break;
}
rewrite ^/wp-content/cache/minify/(.+/[X]+\.css)$ /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/minify.php?test_file=$1 last;
rewrite ^/wp-content/cache/minify/(.+\.(css|js))$ /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/minify.php?file=$1 last;
# END W3TC Minify core
# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core
rewrite ^(.*\/)?w3tc_rewrite_test/?$ $1?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 last;
set $w3tc_rewrite 1;
if ($request_method = POST) {
    set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($query_string != "") {
    set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($request_uri !~ \/$) {
    set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($http_cookie ~* "(comment_author|wp\-postpass|w3tc_logged_out|wordpress_logged_in|wptouch_switch_toggle)") {
    set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($http_cookie ~* "(w3tc_preview)") {
    set $w3tc_rewrite _preview;
}
set $w3tc_enc "";
if ($http_accept_encoding ~ gzip) {
    set $w3tc_enc _gzip;
}
if (!-f "$document_root/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/$http_host/$request_uri/_index$w3tc_rewrite.html$w3tc_enc") {
  set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($w3tc_rewrite = 1) {
    rewrite .* "/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/$http_host/$request_uri/_index$w3tc_rewrite.html$w3tc_enc" last;
}
# END W3TC Page Cache core

I’d really appreciate your help on this matter.

Thanks :-)