nginx load wordpress from a subdirectory - php

Question

I followed a guide from here to install wordpress on my ubuntu server. Upon entering the url http://mydomain.com loads me the front page.
server {
listen 80 default_server;
root /var/www/wordpress;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
error_page 404 /404.html;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
}
I want to load wordpress from my subdomain i.e., http://mydomain.com/wordpress. I went on to modify the location but it can't load properly (it still looks for files under http://mydomain.com).
root /var/www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location /wordpress {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
or
location /{
try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}
How do I fix this? thanks

Answer 1

Your wordpress looking for his files in root directory. /
So you need to tell him, to search his files in the right directory. /wordpress/
There are two ways.
Better: to change the path using wordpress config file for rewriting resources path
from
/css/*, /* etc
to
/wordpress/css/*, /wordpress/* and so on.
Worst: to redirect your wordpress resources to root directory. Something like this:
location ~ ^/images/(.*)$ {
try_files $uri /wordpress/images/$uri =404;
access_log off;
}