You’ve abandoned Apache for a faster, newer and sleeker Nginx. Installation was a breeze. WordPress is just humming along until you start clicking links within WordPress. You realized the permalinks are broken, which is a biggie. So, here’s how you fix WordPress permalinks on Nginx.

WordPress on root directory

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# Edit nginx config
sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/default

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# Add the following lines to the file.
location / {
index index.php index.html index.htm;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?args;
}

WordPress in a subdirectory under root

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location /wordpress/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?args;
}

Restart Nginx

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# must restart nginx for the changes to take effect
sudo nano service nginx restart