Nginx Config for Wordpress

config

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paste this inside virtual host file /etc/nginx/sites-available/<YOUR CONFIG FILE>
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server {
        listen 80;

        server_name <DOMAIN_OR_HOST_NAME>;
        root /var/www/html/<FOLDER_NAME>;

        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        access_log /var/log/nginx/<DOMAIN_OR_HOST_NAME>.access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/<DOMAIN_OR_HOST_NAME>.error.log;

       include global/wordpress.conf;
       include global/restrictions.conf;
       include global/wordpress-w3-total-cache.conf;
}

restrictions.conf

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 paste below code inside /etc/nginx/restrictions.conf
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# Global restrictions configuration file.
# Designed to be included in any server {} block.
location = /favicon.ico {
	log_not_found off;
	access_log off;
}

location = /robots.txt {
	allow all;
	log_not_found off;
	access_log off;
}

# Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, .DS_Store (Mac).
# Keep logging the requests to parse later (or to pass to firewall utilities such as fail2ban)
location ~ /\. {
	deny all;
}

# Deny access to any files with a .php extension in the uploads directory
# Works in sub-directory installs and also in multisite network
# Keep logging the requests to parse later (or to pass to firewall utilities such as fail2ban)
location ~* /(?:uploads|files)/.*\.php$ {
	deny all;
}

wordpress-w3-total-cache.conf

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If you are using w3 total cache then this file will be useful. Otherwise no need.
paste this inside /etc/nginx/global/wordpress-w3-total-cache.conf file
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#W3 TOTAL CACHE CHECK 
set $cache_uri $request_uri;

# POST requests and urls with a query string should always go to PHP
if ($request_method = POST) {
        set $cache_uri 'null cache';
}   
if ($query_string != "") {
        set $cache_uri 'null cache';
}   

# Don't cache uris containing the following segments
if ($request_uri ~* "(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|wp-.*.php|/feed/|index.php|wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php|sitemap(_index)?.xml|[a-z0-9_-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml)") {
        set $cache_uri 'null cache';
}   

# Don't use the cache for logged in users or recent commenters
if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wp-postpass|wordpress_logged_in") {
        set $cache_uri 'null cache';
}
#ADD mobile rules from WP SUPER CACHE section above

# Use cached or actual file if they exists, otherwise pass request to WordPress
location / {
        try_files /wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/$cache_uri/_index.html $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args ;
}    

wordpress.conf

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paste this inside /etc/nginx/global/wordpress.conf file
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if ($http_x_forwarded_proto != 'https') {
         return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}
elseif ($http_x_forwarded_proto == 'https') {
	fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
}

location / {
        # This is cool because no php is touched for static content.
        # include the "?$args" part so non-default permalinks doesn't break when using query string
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
        include fastcgi_params;
        # fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
}

# Only need this part if you using timestamp with your css, js or image files to keep track of update
location ~* (.+)\.(?:\d+)\.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif)$ {
        try_files $uri $1.$2;
}

# Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;