By gdooce
Hi there
I’m having a little problem after migrating from shared hosting (Apache) to a 512mb Droplet running a LEMP stack (I used the excellent EasyEngine to create a WordPress site).
After following the guide over at EasyEngine for migration I managed to import everything correctly. I then pointed the DNS to my Droplet (changed nameservers etc) and was all set to go.
Weirdly, I can access my wp-admin area of my site and everything about it, but when I try to load my homepage or a specific article - I get this:
http://gyazo.com/6c2cd53386844b3862a8dbb5b58a5407
After carefully deactivating each and every plugin I honed the error down to Yoast’s WordPress SEO. After deactivating that, the site functions perfectly, however, that plugin is an essential part of my site so I have to get it all working together.
The problem is, I do not know where the error lies.
I have examined my Nginx config files both on /etc/nginx/sites-available & /etc/nginx/sites-enabled as well as the default nginx config files but I cannot seem to find a solution.
I have transferred over my sitemap which Yoast creates, and it works fine. But that begs the question - what part of the plugin is causing the error on Nginx?
It’s literally just that problem and otherwise the site functions perfectly (or at least I think so!)
Any help would be massively appreciated.
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It seems that Yoast’s WordPress SEO requires rewrite rules and writes an Apache style .htaccess file in the site’s root directory.
In your Niginx config (likely /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default), try adding the following in side of your server block:
rewrite ^/sitemap_index\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 last;
rewrite ^/([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 last;
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