By gts13
I am using this rule in nginx config present in /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress.
location ~ '(/wp-login.php|/wp-admin)' { if ($http_cookie !~ 'cookiename') { return 404; } }
This works and shows 404 when cookie is not present but problem comes when cookie exists and thereafter a dialog box opens to ask where to save wp-login.php and wp-admin files.
How to solve this ? Any help is appreciated.
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Sounds like you have no php installed
sudo apt-get install php5-mysql mysql-server
On Nginx, when you create a location block for PHP you have to copy the fastcgi block too. So it should look like:
location ~ '(/wp-login.php|/wp-admin)' {
if ($http_cookie !~ 'cookiename') { return 404; }
include fastcgi.conf;
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}
Also it isn’t a good idea to block /wp-admin as the AJAX handler admin-ajax.php file exists in this directory.
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