rewrite help needed.

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:57:15PM +0100, Ian Hobson wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I am trying to set up a wordpress site using nginx, and I am running 
> into trouble. Started with the page at 
> http://robertbasic.com/blog/wordpress-as-cms-tutorial/ but things are 
> not working. I think that my translation
> oh an .htaccess file is wrong.
> 
> This is the Apache .htaccess file I wish to replace..
> 
> <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
> RewriteEngine On
> RewriteBase /blog/
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
> RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
> </IfModule>
> 
> This is the file in sites-available. / gives an empty reply, /blog gives 
> a 404, and index.php?p=1 gives a url of
> http://www.domain.com/blog/http:/www.domain.com/blog/hello-world/  and 
> the page contains  "No input file specified".
> 
> # Statements for domain.com
> server {
>    listen   80;
>    #
>    server_name domain.com www.domain.com ;
>    root /var/www/domain.com/htdocs;
>    access_log /var/www/domain.com/access.log combined;
>    index index.php index.html index.htm;
>    #
>    # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
>    #
>    error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
>    # serve static files
>    if (-f $request_filename) {
>       # expires 30d;
>       break;
>    }
>    # send all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
>    if (!-e $request_filename) {
>        rewrite ^/blog/(.+)$ index.php?q=$1 last;
>    }
>    # password protect /usage
>    location ^~ /usage/ {
>        auth_basic "Please login";
>        auth_basic_user_file /var/www/domain.com/passwords;
>    }
>    # all  .php requests to fastcgi using uri.
>    location ~ \.php$ {
>        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
>        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
>    }
> }
> 
> I suspect that the solution is really simple, but I can't see it.
> Help much appreciated.

    location /blog/ {
        try_files  $uri  $uri/  /index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
    }


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Igor Sysoev
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