WordPress Permalinks With Nginx

In this tutorial, we will show you how to change WordPress Permalinks With Nginx. For those of you who didn’t know, If you are using WordPress on Apache (with mod_rewrite), WordPress will automatically add the required rewrite rules to your .htaccess file for permalinks to work. But for Nginx, you have to add the rules manually.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step change WordPress Permalinks With the Nginx web server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu or any other Debian-based and RHEL-based.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo useror access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

WordPress Permalinks With Nginx

Step 1. Installing WordPress.

If you do not have WordPress installed on your server, you can follow our guide here.

Step 2. Changes WordPress Permalinks With Nginx

Before applying this WordPress Nginx Permalinks Rewrite you need to make sure you change your permalink structure from “Day and Name” to “Post name” in the WordPress dashboard.

Here are step-by-step changes pretty permalinks with Nginx:

Add the following Nginx rewrite rule in your Virtual Host:

# permalink
  location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

After you have finished making the changes in the configuration file, reload the Nginx configuration:

service nginx restart

WordPress pretty permalinks should work fine now.

Congratulations! You have successfully configured WordPress permalink. Thanks for using this tutorial for configuring WordPress permalink with Nginx in the CentOS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Nginx website.