WordPress 3.0 & nginx - permalink, 404 problem

Question

I\'ve installed nginx, FastCGI and PHP on my server. WordPress 3.0 installed after a bit of a monster battle, but it\'s installed and working well.

However, when I chang

Answer 1

this does not work if you are using location other than / like:

~ .php$, what i meant to say that pretty link will work but your graphics will be all over the place. so what you need is exactly stated below.

http://www.pearlin.info

  location ~ \.php$



   {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

  if (!-e $request_filename){
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 break;
  }

Answer 2

Have you tried the nginx Compatibility plugin?

Plus ElasticDog seems to provide a fairly concise article on getting WP working with nginx - which includes getting pretty permalinks to work.

Here's another article that seems to deal specifically with nginx rewrite rules for WordPress.

Answer 3

On your location / block,

add this and remove any non-specific rewrite rules:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

Answer 4

If wordpress is on another directory besides the root, instead of having

if (!-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^/wordpress/(.+)$ /wordpress/index.php?q=$1 last;
}

You can have:

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

This page has exactly the same concept. I should have read and tried it first: nginx rewrite rule under a subdirectory

Answer 5

After much pain:

# if filename doesn't exist, take the request and pass to wordpress as a paramater
         if (!-e $request_filename) {
                rewrite ^/wordpress/(.+)$ /wordpress/index.php?q=$1 last;
         }

If the requested file does not exist, pass it to index.php. It's a bit slow and I think I might try and not use a query, but it does work... :)

Answer 6

This was how I solved my permalinks in my wordpress blogs in dreamhost.

Inside the folder /home/ftpusername/nginx/example.com/ (if you don't have it, create it)
created the file nginx.conf with the following content

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

restarted the nginx
/etc/init.d/nginx reload

Some notes:
ftpusername and example.com MUST be changed according to your system.

That was it!
Good luck for u all.