A typical Nginx server block for Wordpress

example-nginx-wordpress.conf

# A typical Nginx server block for Wordpress
# Author: Mikael Luxwarp Carlsson luxwarp@codeiolo.org https://codeiolo.org
# License: ISC
# Created: 2019-08-21

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;

    root /path/to/wordpress

    index  index.php index.html index.htm;

    server_name  example.com www.example.com;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.3-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
    
    # Where nginx should write log files.
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/exampe.com.access.log;
    error_log   /var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log;
}