Comments on: Finally using nginx's "try_files" directive

By: netsteward

netsteward — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:00:05 +0000

The problem with using ?q=$... is that you cannot access your feeds ell, so I use this for our podcastblog http://anarchobroni.es

> try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?uri=$request_uri;

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By: mike

mike — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:59:22 +0000

Yes, nowadays I use:

try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri$is_args$args;

(assuming /wordpress is the root) - because I have seen some oddities if you don't have args.

By: okone

okone — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:22:27 +0000

FYI, its best to use try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;

See my post on the nginx forums for what happens if you don't (http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,194448). It currently also affects this site.

By: This site is now powered by Nginx - gregs

This site is now powered by Nginx - gregs — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:17:41 +0000

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By: chico200987

chico200987 — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:33:12 +0000

Thank you very much, you get me out of the hell ! ;p

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 06 May 2010 03:20:53 +0000

Thank you so much for this, it took me ages to find that I had to add &$args, something none of the other examples on other websites have shown, there are a few small things such as the theme preview in the WordPress admin that require this in order to work.

By: makuchaku

makuchaku — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 05:01:55 +0000

OMG! Can't tell you that how many people you have saved from going insane
Thanks for your post - just what's needed

By: Matthias Marschall

Matthias Marschall — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:38:11 +0000

We're using the permalink settings by wordpress. An article gets an URL like: http://www.agileweboperations.com/20-devops-guys. I cannot make it work:

The try_files approach works for the homepage and the backoffice (/wp-admin), but not for the pretty permalink urls.

The !-e approach works for home and permalinks but does not recognize /wp-admin as an existing directory and tries to redirect, too, which fails.

Anyone experienced similar issues? If it helps I can post my full nginx.conf of course...

By: jason wagner

jason wagner — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:13:07 +0000

Thank you!! The try_files line worked perfect for me.

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