nginx + wordpress in /wordpress subdir

Question

I installed nginx and would like to setup wordpress as a final step. I followed many howtos but am unable to get it working.

The setup is fairly straightforward, the root dir of the webserver is /data/Sites/nkr1pt.homelinux.net. In that root dir I created a symlink to the wordpress folder in /usr/local/wordpress, so in fact all wordpress files can be accessed at /data/Sites/nkr1pt.homelinux.net/wordpress. Permissions are ok.

The plan is to get wordpress working at http://sirius/wordpress, the server's name is sirius. spawn-fcgi is running and listening on port 7777.

Here you can see the relevant config:

server { listen 80; listen 8080; server_name sirius; root /data/Sites/nkr1pt.homelinux.net; passenger_enabled on; passenger_base_uri /redmine; #charset koi8-r; #access_log logs/access.log main; location ^~ /data { root /data/Sites/nkr1pt.homelinux.net; autoindex on; auth_basic "Restricted"; auth_basic_user_file htpasswd; } location ^~ /dump { root /data/Sites/nkr1pt.homelinux.net; autoindex on; } location ^~ /wordpress { try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php; } # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:7777 location ~ \.php$ { #fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/wordpress)(/.*)$; fastcgi_pass localhost:7777; #fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; #index index.php; } 

please note that redmine, and the locations dump and data are working perfectly, it is only wordpress that I cannot get to work.

Can you please help me to the correct wordpress configuration in nginx? All help is much appreciated!

Answer 1

I see that you include "fastcgi_params" in your nginx.conf after setting:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; 

If fastcgi_params overrides SCRIPT_FILENAME with something different, the previous line will be ignored and Wordpress won't work. I suggest that you invert the order of those two lines, like this:

include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; 

Answer 2

From what I've seen the main thing to get wordpress working is to translate the mod_rewrite rules into nginx format. The format is:

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

You are also missing

root /path/to/wordpress 

In that subsection.

Otherwise, is there a particular error you are seeing? What do the error logs show?

Answer 3

Use a server level rewrite. You should adjust all other locations. Oh and BTW, your setup is insecure. You should use a nested location or fastcgi_split_path_info. You can check my WP config on github for a nested location approach.

Anyway here's your request answered:

 rewrite ^ http://$host/wordpress$request_uri? permanent;