Hi there @ic891,

There are a few things which could be causing this:

• If you used the configuration file at /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default then you just need to run this command in order to delete the index file:

sudo rm /var/www/html/index.html

This would delete the default Nginx index file.

• If you created a new server block, you need to make sure that the configuration file has a symlink from your sites-available folder to your sites-enabled folder, to check that run this command here:

sudo ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

If you do not see your new server block in there, you can run this command here:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

After run a config test:

sudo nginx -t

If no errors were reported, reload Nginx by typing:

sudo systemctl reload nginx

You need to make sure that Nginx can access your WordPress files, to do that you need to run this command:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/wordpress

Let me know how it goes!

If this still does not help please run the following commands and share the output here:

sudo ls -l /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

Then run:

sudo /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ -print -exec cat {} \;

Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby

Hi @ic891,

I am sure you made an error while doing configuration, Follow this carefully to solve this.

First Unlink the default Nginx configuration, if you not done yet.

sudo unlink /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default

Next, create a configuration file for your website:

sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/domain.com

Add the following configuration:

server {
        listen 80;
        root /var/www/public_html;
        index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
        server_name yourdomain.com;

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

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
        }
}

Enable configuration for a new website:

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

sudo systecmctl reload nginx

Once you have done this, Install PHP-fpm to process the PHP files, Nginx will not process the PHP files.

sudo apt install PHP-fpm

Install WordPress in your public_html directory and then you can use your website.

If you still have any problem, Let me know.