Resolved After enabling NGINX, all posts in WordPress blogs in sub-directories are giving 404 Page Not Found

[meymigrou]

After I enabled NGINX from Plesk (Web Pro) all my posts in my main and sub-directory blogs give 404 Page Not Found error.

I placed the following code in my "Additional NGINX Directives" in Plesk to fix all the URLS, but it only fixed the main site (example.com) while the sub-directory blogs (example.com/tech/, example.com/mag/ and example.com/dispatch/) are still giving 404 error.

# Wordpress Permalinks

if (!-e $request_filename) {

    rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}

After that, I removed the code and placed the following one:

if (!-e $request_filename) {

set $test P;

}

if ($uri !~ ^/(plesk-stat|webstat|webstat-ssl|ftpstat|anon_ftpstat|awstats-icon|internal-nginx-static-location)) {

set $test "${test}C";

}

if ($test = PC) {

rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?$1;

}

I found this code in one of the official Plesk pages, and it says:

If a WordPress installation is located in a subdirectory (for example, "httpdocs/sub-dir") or this is a WordPress multisite network based on subdirectories, add the /sub-dir/ before /index.php?$1 so it will look like this: rewrite ^/(.*)$ /sub-dir/index.php?$1;

Note: For WordPress multisite network based on subfolder, add the above rule for each subdirectory.

As of now I got this (which doesn't work):

if (!-e $request_filename) {

set $test P;

}

if ($uri !~ ^/(plesk-stat|webstat|webstat-ssl|ftpstat|anon_ftpstat|awstats-icon|internal-nginx-static-location)) {

set $test "${test}C";

}

if ($test = PC) {

rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?$1;

rewrite ^/(.*)$ /tech/index.php?$1;

rewrite ^/(.*)$ /mag/index.php?$1;

rewrite ^/(.*)$ /dispatch/index.php?$1;

}

Any help will be much appreciated!

P.S. The main website works like a charm. In example.com/tech/ and /mag/ and /dispatch/ while the homepages are fine, the posts are giving me a 404 page error. I also updated the permalinks in WordPress and it didn't help.

 

[meymigrou]

Could anyone please take a look and provide me with the right code for Additional NGINX Directives? I'm taking for a website with thousands of visitors each month so it's super important to fix the issue. Any help will be much appreciated!

 

[marekmuzika]

Good day,

have you somehow managed to solve it?

I have a similar problem. I have a wordpress multisite subdirectory and when switching php to NGINX everything works except the administration of plugins in subpages. I tried almost everything I read on the internet, but I couldn't solve it.

 

[meymigrou]

Good day,

have you somehow managed to solve it?

I have a similar problem. I have a wordpress multisite subdirectory and when switching php to NGINX everything works except the administration of plugins in subpages. I tried almost everything I read on the internet, but I couldn't solve it.

Sorry for the big delay! I've placed the following code in my main's website .htaccess file and all subdirectories started working as expected.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Solution credits goes to WPMUDEV.

 

[Alejandro Oro Vojacek]

Yes but that solution will work if you just want to use Apache as webserver and nginx as a simple proxy. It does not fix the issue for when you have proxy mode disabled and NGINX is the only one serving the content.

 

[scorpio]

Sorry for the big delay! I've placed the following code in my main's website .htaccess file and all subdirectories started working as expected.

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule ^ - [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Solution credits goes to WPMUDEV.

 

[scorpio]

I am using Nginx as a proxy behind Apache
I have setup my network to use sub-folders NOT sub-domains
I placed the above code into my .htaccess file and the sub-site URLS works on the front end. However, when I try to access the admin URL for a sub-site it throws a 404 error.

More guidance is required, please!