Nginx Virtual Hosts & Wordpress Rewrite Rules

Coburn64 · 09-14-2010, 05:12 AM

Hi,

I'm trying to set up my web server (nginx) as a catchall virtual host, as per an example that can be seen here: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxVirtualHostExample (It's the Wildcard Subdomains in a Parent Folder example).

Now, here's my issue. I use Wordpress on the coburndomain.org domain. I have pretty URLs enabled, that make my Wordpress articles look like this:

somesite_DOT_com/index.php/2010/09/woo-hoo-this-works-2/

At the moment, nginx is reporting 500 Errors, saying that index.php is not a directory. What I want to do is make a rewrite rule that allows me to use the above URL example with nginx.

I followed this tutorial to do so: http://www.romej.com/archives/515/ng...ordpress-redux , but I'm not sure how to apply it to my setup. Here's my configuration files from Debian Squeeze with Nginx onboard:

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

Code:

user www-data;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /private/www/logs/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;

    access_log  /private/www/logs/access.log;
    log_format main '$remote_addr $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" ' '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" ' '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/vhosts

Code:

server {
  # Replace this port with the right one for your requirements
  listen       80;  #could also be 1.2.3.4:80

  # Multiple hostnames separated by spaces.  Replace these as well.
  server_name  iceprism.coburndomain.org ;

  root /private/www/vhosts/$host;

  # error_page  404 ;
  access_log  /private/www/logs/access.log;

  index  index.php index.html index.htm;

  # serve static files directly
  location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ {
    access_log        off;
    expires           30d;
  }

# Dunno what this does...
#       location / {
#        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$uri =404;
#}
# This didn't work either >_>
#   if (!-e $request_filename) {
#            rewrite ^/(.*)$  /index.php/$1 last;
#   }

  location ~ .php$ {
    # By all means use a different server for the fcgi processes if you need to
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI      $request_uri;
      fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI     $document_uri;
      fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT    $document_root;
      fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
      fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
      fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
      fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
      fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;
      fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING     $query_string;
      fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD   $request_method;
      fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE     $content_type;
      fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH   $content_length;
   fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
  }

  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny  all;
  }
}

Could anyone shine some light onto this? Nginx is by far the best webserver for my needs, and I hate to have to turn off SEO-friendly Wordpress URLs.

Cheers,
Coburn64

Web31337 · 09-15-2010, 01:58 PM

Code:

if ( !-e $request_filename) {
    rewrite ^.* /index.php last;
}

and remove that ugly "index.php/" from wordpress URI scheme.