Nginx, centmin, wordpress permalink.html = 404 Not Found?

Mon5t3r

Hi,

Just my another noobs question, i have a client, he's installing centmin on his VPS, everything look good except the permalink/rewrite rules. he got 404 error when he put /%category%/%postname%.html in permalink. i did try the same config on my test vps with script from server reviews, froxlor, or even ispconfig with no problem. anyone had same issue?

thanks.

tdc_adm

Hello,

If you client gets 404 error pages of nginx (not 404 pages of wordpress) then it seems that nginx does not pass permalinks to php-fpm. You should review the nginx config file to ensure nginx will pass permalinks to php-fpm. You will need somethings like:

location / {
        # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}

if your client setups wordpress insie a sub-directory of document root, modify /index.php to /sub-directory/index.php

An example here: http://wiki.nginx.org/Wordpress

P/S: after editing config file, don't forget to restart/reload nginx

iKocka

Add the following code in Nginx config. Don't forget to invoke cofig :P

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

Mon5t3r

@tdc_adm @iKocka thanks but still not solved.

i can access it when i try to put /%category%/%postname% in permalink options. let say :

blabla.com/category1/post1

but not for /%category%/%postname%.html -> blabla.com/category1/post1.html

and this only appear in centmin from BTCentral.

tdc_adm

It's strange. My wordpress site uses same .html extension like your client. Could you quote the nginx config file (server part).

Mon5t3r

sure..

blabla.com.conf

server {
  server_name blabla.com www.blabla.com;

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/blabla.com/log/access.log;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/blabla.com/log/error.log;

  root /home/nginx/domains/blabla.com/public;

  location / {
    index index.php;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    include wp_params;
  }

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
}

wp_params

if (-f $request_filename) {
break;
}
if (-d $request_filename) {
break;
}
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
error_page  404  = //index.php?q=$uri;

netomx

there's the problem, check line 22

Mon5t3r

ah ok, i got it now. it's from staticfiles.conf

location ~* \.(3gp|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|wmv|avi|asf|asx|mpg|mpeg|mp4|pls|mp3|mid|wav|swf|flv|html|htm|txt|js|css|exe|zip|tar|rar|gz|tgz|bz2|uha|7z|doc|docx|xls|xlsx|pdf|iso)$ {
    add_header Pragma public;
    add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    access_log off;
    expires 30d;
    break;
        }

tdc_adm

Oh, you catched the problem I also did remove .html from my staticfiles.conf but I forgot it this time.

By the way, you should remove this line:

include wp_params;

Because

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

handles the same logic in a better way.
References:
http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil
http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls

Mon5t3r

@tdc_adm yeah.. i put the wp_params -> remove the try_files and vice versa -> put them all together, etc. i'm little bit frustrated you know. :P