Nginx rewrite in subfolder (404) - wordpress

Question

I has a site host on a NGINX server which used to work fine to remove index.php in nginx site config using try_files.
But now I am going to add a blog on it, where the URL will be www.foo.com/blog, I can access the blog and use index.php?p=.
But, once I use pretty permalink with Nginx Helper, www.foo.com/blog/2013/07/bar, I get 404.
server {
# don't forget to tell on which port this server listens
listen 80;
# listen on the www host
server_name foo.com;
# and redirect to the non-www host (declared below)
return 301 $scheme://www.ultra-case.com$request_uri;
}
server {
# listen 80 default_server deferred; # for Linux
# listen 80 default_server accept_filter=httpready; # for FreeBSD
listen 80;
# The host name to respond to
server_name www.foo.com;
# Path for static files
root /web/foo.com
#index file
index index.php;
#Specify a charset
charset utf-8;
# Custom 404 page
error_page 404 /404.html;
# Uri Rewrite
location /blog {
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$args;
}
location / {
autoindex on;
# This is cool because no php is touched for static content.
# include tihe "?$args" part so non-default permalinks doesn't break when using query string
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
#NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
}
# Include the component config parts for h5bp
include conf/h5bp.conf;
}

Answer 1

The accepted answer routes everything through index.php.
This will break certain script includes, the wp-admin script being one of them.
You can use:
location /blog/ {
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$args;
}

Answer 2

Um... Thank you for all comments and answer. But finally I use this method to get it works
location /blog {
index index.php;
rewrite ^/blog/(.*)+$ /blog/index.php?$1; # it finally works
# return 200 $request_uri; # it is for inspect what $request_uri is
# try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php$request_uri$is_args$args; # it gets 500 server error
}
Please point out if current setting has any problems. thank you!

Answer 3

I would suggest the following, to catch any permalinks under subfolder /blog
location /blog {
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$args;
}

Answer 4

Try this, I changed my answer to try to imitate the same behaviour you are using in your rewrite.
location ~ /blog(.*) {
index index.php;
try_files $uri /blog/index.php?$1&$args;
}

Answer 5

Try this
location /api {
# example: http://demo.com/api/channels/dmzb
root /data/webserver/demo.com/api/web;
rewrite ^/api/(.*) /$1 break;
try_files $uri $uri/ /api/index.php?$args;
location ~ ^/api/index\.php {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
# fix request_uri
set $changed_request_uri $request_uri;
if ($changed_request_uri ~ ^/api(.*)) {
set $changed_request_uri $1;
}
fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $changed_request_uri;
# fix script_filename
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(?:\/api\/)(.+\.php)(.*);
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

Answer 6

Think for php, rewrite is no needed with something like this:
location /app/ {
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /path/to/your/app/index.php;
fastcgi_pass php;
}
With following fastcgi pass
upstream php {
server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

Answer 7

A universal solution for pretty URLs in root and one subfolder level:
set $virtualdir "";
set $realdir "";
if ($request_uri ~ ^/([^/]*)/.*$ ) {
set $virtualdir /$1;
}
if (-d "$document_root$virtualdir") {
set $realdir "${virtualdir}";
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ $realdir/index.php?$args;
}

Answer 8

I found that with permalink enabled, I needed a combination of both sets of answers given here, otherwise
With only the rewrite, none of the static files got served
With only the try files, the permalinks did not work
This is working on my set up
location /blog/ {
rewrite ^/blog/(blog/(tag|category|20??)/.*)+$ /blog/index.php?$1;
try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$args =404;
}

Answer 9

ip url: 123.123.123/xxxxxxxxxx/
location /xxxxxxxxxx/ {
try_files $uri $uri/ /xxxxxxxxxx/index.php?$query_string;
}
# Rewrite multisite '.../wp-.*' and '.../*.php'.
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite ^(/xxxxxxxxxx/.*)+(/wp-.*) /xxxxxxxxxx/$2 last;
rewrite ^(/xxxxxxxxxx/.*)+.*(/wp-admin/.*\.php)$ /xxxxxxxxxx/$2 last;
rewrite ^(/xxxxxxxxxx/.*)+(/.*\.php)$ /xxxxxxxxxx/$2 last;
}