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[I just posted this on the WP Forums, too, before anyone starts Googling and saying that this is posted somewhere else]

I'm hoping this isn't a duplicate, but I've been searching here and Googling and I haven't been able to find anything.

I'm currently running a web server that constitutes nginx as both a front-end proxy to a LAMP stack and the web server for static sites. I'm working on some development for a site that will be powered by WP.

Currently, mysite.com is served up by nginx as a static site. The WP install will be served out of a subfolder, mysite.com/sub. The document root for the nginx server (the static files) and the document root for the Apache server (all dynamic content, and also where the WP files are currently installed) are NOT the same directory. I want to install WP in mysite.com/sub so that only this subdirectory is powered by WP while completely ignoring the root of my site but all of the articles I have read discuss using WP to power the root while simply installing the files elsewhere.

It took me forever to write all the correct proxy passing rules in my nginx configuration just to make the installation happen properly, and that is all good and well, but WordPress is operating out of mysite.com instead of mysite.com/sub and I'm not 100% sure what the easiest way to fix this is, since mysite.com isn't powered by Apache and so there are no PHP or .htaccess files to tinker with in the root of that directory.

I realize that this is sort of rambling and difficult to explain, I'll be happy to provide answer to any questions for anyone that thinks they can point me down the right path.

I would prefer to use this structure instead of using a subdomain, so if anyone out there has any suggestions I'd really appreciate it.

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If you are still looking for a solution, your nginx configuration should look like this in order to achieve what you described...

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name yourdomain.com

  root /path/to/yourdomain.com;
  index index.php index.html;

  location / {
    # directives to handle static site
  }

  location /sub {
    # directives to handle WordPress
    try_files $uri $uri/ /sub/index.php?$args;
  }

  location ~* \.php$ {
    # pass to Apache backend
  }
}
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WordPress needs no special configuration to install in a subdirectory. Simply install it in mysite.com/sub, and run mysite.com/sub/install.php. WordPress will know its location, and will use mysite.com/sub as its URL.

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  • That's good and well, except that isn't the case, and I believe it has to do with the fact that I'm using apache ghosts with an nginx front end. I installed wordpress in the sub directory and ran the installer, but the site still insists on using URL's such as "mysite/wp-admin" instead of "mysite/sub/wp-admin". The Settings panel also shows that the Site URL and Wordpress URL are both mysite.com.
    – Doug Stephen
    Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 17:01
  • ...and all of that nginx/apache configuration bit is out of scope/too localized for WPSE.
    – Chip Bennett
    Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 18:07
  • Fair enough. I'll fish it around on Server Fault then. Thanks!
    – Doug Stephen
    Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 19:08
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Doug, in your wp-config, set the WP_HOME, and WP_SITEURL to have /blog/ after the site name and you'll be good.

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  • I had tried that and it hadn't helped. The issue was with server configuration and had to do with the way the proxy passing mapped to physical directories on the box since the root directory for the nginx location wasn't equivalent to the root directory for the dynamic files being processed by Apache. The configuration scripts were just putting files in the wrong places. It's no longer an issue and it was just an edge-case for a weird development environment I was forced in to working on.
    – Doug Stephen
    Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 20:08
  • ahh ok. cool :)
    – Vid Luther
    Commented Nov 23, 2011 at 20:56

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