Title: Nginx Customizations?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Nginx Customizations?

 *  Resolved [vtinq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtinq/)
 * (@vtinq)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nginx-customizations/)
 * I am using Nginx for my webserver. I want to install wordpress but am having 
   trouble with the needed customizations to nginx.conf in order to launch install.
   php. Does anyone know the needed changes/additions required? (I know there is
   a Codex entry on this subject, but I need a more basic understanding.)

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nginx-customizations/#post-5959552)
 * There should not be any changes necessary for the initial install process, or
   for anything else in the wp-admin area. The only config you need to add for WordPress
   is to enable non-default permalinks, which don’t affect the install or admin 
   areas.
 * Have you configured PHP? Or does the PHP not currently run at all on your server?
 *  Thread Starter [vtinq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtinq/)
 * (@vtinq)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nginx-customizations/#post-5959564)
 * PHP works in most areas. My Nginx.conf root is /var/www. The WordPress install
   is at /var/www/wordpress. I can do the install with localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/
   install.php. I can go to the admin page with localhost/wordpress/wp-admin. But
   when I try to view the site (localhost/wordpress/) or view a post (such as localhost/
   wordpress/hello-world), I get a blank white page.
 * I’m not clear on what you mean by the need to enable non-default permalinks. 
   I changed permalinks to numeric, then entered the URL [http://localhost/wordpress/archives/1](http://localhost/wordpress/archives/1)
   and Nginx reports “404 Not Found.”
 *  Thread Starter [vtinq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtinq/)
 * (@vtinq)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nginx-customizations/#post-5959566)
 * Fixed. I forgot I had an index.html file in /var/www/wordpress for testing. I
   deleted the file, reloaded [http://localhost/wordpress/?p=1](http://localhost/wordpress/?p=1)
   and the “Hello World!” post appeared.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nginx-customizations/#post-5959657)
 * For non-default permalinks to work in nginx, you’ll need to add some rules to
   your conf file. WordPress will auto add rules to an .htaccess for Apache, but
   nginx can load multiple files from multiple locations, so your specific setup
   will need to decide where you put the rules.
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx#General_WordPress_rules](https://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx#General_WordPress_rules)
 * The main rule needed would be something like this:
 *     ```
       location /wordpress {
       	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
       }
       ```
   
 * This allows it to fallback to the index.php file for non-default rules, so the
   WordPress system can parse the URL.

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 * [nginx](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nginx/)

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 * Last reply from: [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nginx-customizations/#post-5959657)
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