NGINX wordpress 404 for all subpages - php

Question

I have two problems but I think they're related. Subdirectories like /wp-admin, /blog return 404, consequently, permalinks do not work as they follow /blog/category1/page.php
My setup:
I have a server 192.168.1.4 running nginx. On another server, 192.168.1.1 I have an apache web server using virtualhosts which is hosting my wordpress site. The setup works fine without nginx, but when I turn nginx on I have a few issues.
Nginx will not work with permalinks. I have used default, so now its like: http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/?page_id=90 which works fine (as long as its not in subdirectory).
Everything in subdirectory (not in root) breaks. Including admin pages http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/wp-admin, or (before turning off permalinks) http://www.mywebsite.co.uk/blog. They all go to 404, specifically: 404 Not Found nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)
Here is my config:
server {
server_name mywebsite.co.uk www.mywebsite.co.uk;
location / {
index index.php;
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.1$request_uri;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-Ip $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
#try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; #not working, error: rewrute or internal redirection cycle while interally redirecting to index.php
}
}
For reference, here is my permalinks: /blog/%category%/%postname%/
Update
Tried adding this to my config:
server {
... config above ...
location /wp-admin/ {
index index.php
try_files $uri $uri/ /wp-admin/index.php?$args;
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.1$request_uri;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
}
}
this retrns an error in log:
rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/wp-admin/index.php", client: xxxxx, server: mydomain.co.uk`

Answer 1

You have bits of a working configuration. The purpose of nginx in your configuration, is to reverse proxy to the Apache server. The index and try_files are inappropriate in this case. Try:
server {
server_name mywebsite.co.uk www.mywebsite.co.uk;
location / {
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.1;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-Ip $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $remote_addr;
}
}

Answer 2

Why you dont want to try wordpress without apache ?
working config would be like this :
server {
listen 80;
server_name site.com;
root /home/www/site.com;
access_log /var/log/nginx/log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
# SECURITY : Deny all attempts to access PHP Files in the uploads directory
location ~* /(?:uploads|files)/.*\.php$ {
deny all;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
location = /robots.txt {allow all; log_not_found off; access_log off; }
error_page 404 /404.html;
location ~ /\. { deny all; }
location ~* ^.+\.(js|css|swf|xml|txt|ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ {
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
expires 30d;
}
}

Answer 3

I found in my case the problem was that mod_rewrite was not enabled. I had to run a2enmod rewrite on the server with apache

Answer 4

May be you could get your answer here Ultimate NGINX configuration for Wordpress » www.geekytuts.net