example-wordpress-nginx-configuration

upstream php {
    server unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}

server {
    listen 80 default_server;
    server_name _;

    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443;
    listen [::]:443;
    server_name sitename.com www.sitename.com;

    # redirects
    rewrite "(?i)/from\-place.?$" /to-place permanent;
    rewrite "(?i)/from\-here.?$" /to-here permanent;
    include rewrites.conf;
    
    root /home/sitename/public_html;
    index index.php;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/sitename.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/sitename.com.error.log;

    ssl on;
    ssl_certificate /home/sitename/ssl.cert;
    ssl_certificate_key /home/sitename/myserver.key;

    # do not use SSLv3 due to the POODLE exploit
    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE
    ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;

    client_max_body_size 32m;

    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
    }

    location /home/sitename/public_html {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass php;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
    }

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