Block-Editor (Gutenberg) not saving (nginx + letsencrypt + WordPress 5.0.1)

Huh. 403 error?

I also have nginx, Let Encrypt and WordPress 5.0.1 and use the editor without that problem.

*Looks*

I’m posting my confs here as there may be something there that works for you. Try and do a stare and compare before changing anything on your setup. Also as you know, backups are your friend.

I’m on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS with PHP Version 7.2.10-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 as php-fpm.

Here’s the file I use for my site in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ for the non-TLS version. The listen 443 is at the end. It’s symlinked to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/

server {
	listen 80;

	root /var/www/vhosts/dembowski.net;

	server_name dembowski.net *.dembowski.net;

	client_max_body_size 500M;

	add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains" always;
	add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
	add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
	add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
	add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade";
	add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
	# add_header Content-Security-Policy "default-src https";

	gzip on;
	gzip_min_length 1100;
	gzip_buffers 4 32k;
	gzip_types text/plain application/javascript application/x-javascript text/javascript text/xml text/css;
	gzip_vary on;

	index index.php index.html;

	location ~ ^/\.user\.ini {
		deny all;
	}

	location / {

		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

	}

	location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
		# Some basic cache-control for static files to be sent to the browser
		expires max;
		add_header Pragma public;
		add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
		add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
	}

	# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
	location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
		expires 24h;
		log_not_found off;
		add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
		gzip on;
	}

	include /etc/nginx/php-fpm.conf;

	listen 443 ssl http2; # managed by Certbot
	ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/dembowski.net/fullchain.pem;
	ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/dembowski.net/privkey.pem;
	include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf; # managed by Certbot
	ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams-4096.pem; # managed by Certbot

	if ($scheme != "https") {
		return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
	} # managed by Certbot

}

There’s probably more in there than is necessary. I separated /etc/nginx/php-fpm.conf because I’ve several hosts and editing that in many places was a pain.

That file looks like this. Depending on my mood (seriously) I vary fastcgi_pass from a localhost listener or a unix: socket.

location ~ \.php$ {

	fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
	try_files $uri =404;
	#fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
	fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
	fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
	fastcgi_param WP_NGINX_CONFIG done;
	fastcgi_index index.php;
	include fastcgi_params;

}

Thank you very much for your reply and especially confirming that Gutenberg should work with nginx and Let’s Encrypt. While trying out the configuration settings you posted I stumbled upon a configuration line in my config file that would add a slash to the end of each url that didn’t contain a dot:

rewrite ^([^.]*[^/])$ $1/ permanent;

That line was the culprit. After commenting out this line and restarting nginx Gutenberg worked.

Thank you very much!!!

I’m glad you sorted it out. ??

I was having a similar issue. But with adding the trailing slash from the htaccess file. Do you know why this would cause the editor to not save? I wasn’t able to find any error logs that pointed to this being the problem.

Thanks.

My site was made using a (Urline) theme that included wp bakery. I then used gutenberg to make posts as easiest for staff to use. However, since latest update ( wp5.2.3) the gutenberg editor will not save. I now have classic editor installed so can write and save blogs but very basic looking and can no longer use the nice pullquotes etc that I had originally been using.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by rozsarak.