NGINX Configuration for Wordpress@4.8.1 SITE with SSL, http->https redirection

nginx.wordpress4.conf

# Based in:
# https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-in-ubuntu-16-04
# https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lemp-on-ubuntu-16-04

# HTTP Config
server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    listen [::]:80 default_server;

    server_name www.yoursite.com;
    location / {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
}

# HTTPS Config
server {

    listen 443 http2 ssl;

    ssl_certificate /etc/ssl/path/to/certificate.cer;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/ssl/path/to/certificate.key;

    # To generate it use: openssl dhparam -out /etc/ssl/path/to/certificate.dhparam.pem 2048
    ssl_dhparam /etc/ssl/path/to/certificate.dhparam.pem;

    root /var/www/html;
    index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    server_name www.yoursite.com;

    location / {
        #try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

Only replace:

• cert paths
• www.yoursite.com for your own domain

Tested on AWS EC2 Ubuntu 16.04