Nginx rewrite rules

Question

I am having some problems with the Nginx rewrite algorithm for WordPress.

I am using this for the rewrite and it works good;

    server_name www.domain.com domain.com;
    if ($host != 'domain.com') {
    rewrite ^/(.*)     http://domain.com/$1 permanent;
    } 

it makes this url;

http://domain.com/?author=1 

to this;

http://domain.com/author/username/

which is good but with an url like this;

http://domain.com/?author=1&type=like

it makes it;

http://domain.com/author/username/?type=like

and i am not getting any error but the query is not working.

What i am missing?

Answer 1

The correct Nginx rewrite rules for WordPress are:

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

This sends everything through index.php and keeps the appended query string intact.

If your running PHP-FPM you should also add this before your fastcgi_params as a security measure:

location ~ \.php {
        try_files $uri =404;

      //  fastcgi_param ....
      //  fastcgi_param ....

      fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}