Ubuntu and Nginx – SSL Works but only homepage loads

I’ve tried steps in here: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/options-for-ssl-in-wordpress–cms-21995
and here: https://fancythemes.com/fix-broken-permalinks-wordpress/

Have disabled every single plugin and it’s still broken.

Looking at my nginx logs I see this:

2017/03/27 23:33:30 [error] 2640#2640: *2520 "/var/www/html/tag/firefox/index.php" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: <IP-ADDRESS>, server: fiwebelize.com, request: "GET /tag/firefox/ HTTP/1.1", host: "fiwebelize.com"
2017/03/27 23:33:34 [error] 2640#2640: *2519 "/var/www/html/articles/index.php" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: <IP-ADDRESS>, server: fiwebelize.com, request: "GET /articles/ HTTP/2.0", host: "fiwebelize.com", referrer: "https://fiwebelize.com/"

Please post your Nginx configuration here.

You must have missed something in it…

For example, please make sure you have something like the following in your config…

location / {

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

}

In the above config, /index.php$is_args$args is important. It may be missing on yours.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Pothi Kalimuthu. Reason: better formatting!

Here’s the output from /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}

http {  
        # Basic Settings
        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 2;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;
        # server_tokens off;
        # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
        # server_name_in_redirect off;
        
        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;
        
        # SSL Settings
        ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2; # Dropping SSLv3, ref: POODLE
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
        
        # Logging Settings
        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
        
        # Gzip Settings
        gzip on;
        gzip_disable "msie6";
        
        include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
        include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

Actually.. You were right… I added the

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

to my sites-enabled config file. For some reason the tutorial I followed missed that in their config.

They had the section of the file as:

    location / {
        if ($scheme = http) {
            return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
        }
    }

I changed it to:

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
        if ($scheme = http) {
            return 301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
        }
    }

Thanks Pothi.

Glad you were able to identify and fix. Thanks.