Question
Wordpress category links are not working and sometimes PHP gives a blank page on an Nginx server
I just configured a new server to move my website. After I migrated, everything works fine except for category links. If we visit a category, it will give a 404 error. Page permalinks are working fine! What might be the problem? One website gives this problem immediately, the other after sometime. Sometimes even the posts go missing.
Sometimes I even get a problem of having blank pages for php files.
The nginx conf :
server {
listen 80;
root /var/www/androidgadgematic;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name androidgadgematic.com www.androidgadgematic.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
location ~* .(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 10d;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
}
location ~ /\. {
deny all;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
location ~ /nginx.conf {
deny all;
log_not_found off;
access_log off;
}
location ~ ^/feed/(.+)\.html$ {
if ($args != '') {
rewrite ^(.*) $1? permanent;
}
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
include /var/www/androidgadgematic/nginx.conf;
location ~ "\.pagespeed\.([a-z]\.)?[a-z]{2}\.[^.]{10}\.[^.]+" { add_header "" ""; }
location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_static/" { }
location ~ "^/ngx_pagespeed_beacon$" { }
location /ngx_pagespeed_statistics { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
location /ngx_pagespeed_global_statistics { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
location /ngx_pagespeed_message { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
location /pagespeed_console { allow 127.0.0.1; deny all; }
location ^~ /wp-login.php {
auth_basic "Restricted Area: WordPress";
auth_basic_user_file /var/www/.htpasswd;
try_files $uri =404;
#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
}
}
PS : Even the wp-admin gives 404
fastcgi.conf:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $request_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_URI $document_uri;
fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PROTOCOL $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param HTTPS $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param SERVER_SOFTWARE nginx/$nginx_version;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_ADDR $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param REMOTE_PORT $remote_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_ADDR $server_addr;
fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT $server_port;
fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name;
# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;
PS : I downloaded and compiled Nginx from source to install page speed. Might this be the problem?
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Do you have plugins like W3 Total Cache installed? Try disabling it and see if it works.
@jesin Yes I disabled W3TC and tried. But didn’t work.
@THpubs After disabling W3TC comment out the line
include /var/www/androidgadgematic/nginx.conf;
reload Nginx and check if it works.Also edit wp-config.php, set the value of
WP_DEBUG
totrue
and check if any PHP errors are displayed on those blank pages.Can you post your site’s URL if possible.
@jesin I commented out the nginx.conf line and still didn’t work. I will check for WP errors thanks!
i face this problem too all post normal but category show blank page :( any suggestion?