multiple wordpress in one server with nginx - php

Question

I have one main wordpress app installed in this domain test.wa-essence.com,
now I want to setup a second wordpress under a subdomain test.wa-essence.com/wachampionacademy
the first wordpress in located inside /var/www/test_wa_essence
and the second wordpress is inside /var/www/wa_champion
I followed this instruction on setting the nginx https://serversforhackers.com/c/nginx-php-in-subdirectory
and here is the nginx config that I have written
server {
root /var/www/test_wa_essence;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name test.wa-essence.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
location /wachampionacademy {
alias /var/www/wa_champion;
try_files $uri $uri/ #nested;
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
}
location #nested {
rewrite /wachampionacademy/(.*)$ /wachampionacademy/index.php?/$1 last;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }
location ~* \.(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
listen 443 ssl; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/test.wa-essence.com/fullchain.pem; # managed by Certbot
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/test.wa-essence.com/privkey.pem; # managed by Certbot
include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem; # managed by Certbot
}
server {
if ($host = test.wa-essence.com) {
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
} # managed by Certbot
listen 80;
server_name test.wa-essence.com;
return 404; # managed by Certbot
}
I managed to install both wordpress by using different nginx config.
the first app can be accessed without any problem, however, test.wa-essence.com/wachampionacademy return me 404 eventhough it appears to be at the right wordpress app.
Please tell me what I got wrong in my nginx setup. Thanks

Answer 1

server {
root /var/www/wa_essence;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name test.wa-essence.com;
location /wachampionacademy/{
try_files $uri $uri/ /wachampionacademy/?$args;
}
location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
location = /robots.txt { log_not_found off; access_log off; allow all; }
location ~* \.(css|gif|ico|jpeg|jpg|js|png)$ {
expires max;
log_not_found off;
}
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name test.wa-essence.com;
}
that is the final nginx config that I used,
however, the most important thing that I change I believe is the wordpress siteurl and homeurl to test.wa-essence.com/wachampionacademy