What is wrong with my Nginx conf? Wordpress not loading Postname Permalink articles

Question

Latest Wordpress running on Rocky 8.

With Permalinks set to Postname articles in the format of http://www.example.com/this-is-an-article/ return a 404.

Here is my Nginx conf file:

server { listen 80; server_name xyz.com www.example.com; root /db/docroot/www.example.com; index index.php; rewrite_log on; access_log /db/logs/host.access.log main; error_log /db/logs/example.debug.log debug; location / { root /db/docroot/www.example.com; index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_index index.php; include fastcgi_params; } 

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Answer 1

Likely reason is:

try_file $uri =404; in your PHP location block. You should remove that, so that requests will go via FastCGI to the PHP-FPM, instead of trying to be served as static resources.

Answer 2

After many hours of trying to make this work I installed a new server with Rocky 9, rsync-ed my web root, database mysqldump and nginx/PHP-FPM conf files to the new server and Permalinks are now working. Not sure what the problem is with Rocky 8 (maybe PHP 7.4 vs PHP 8) but Rocky 9 is working fine.