https://codex.wordpress.org/Nginx \\ include global/restrictions.conf; include global/wordpress.conf; \\ === global/restrictions.conf === # 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; } \\ \\ === global/wordpress.conf === # WordPress single site rules. # Designed to be included in any server {} block. # Upstream to abstract backend connection(s) for php upstream php { server unix:/tmp/php-cgi.socket; server 127.0.0.1:9000; } server { ## Your website name goes here. server_name domain.tld; ## Your only path reference. root /var/www/wordpress; ## This should be in your http block and if it is, it's not needed here. index index.php; location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; } location = /robots.txt { allow all; log_not_found off; access_log off; } 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$ { #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini include fastcgi.conf; fastcgi_intercept_errors on; fastcgi_pass php; fastcgi_buffers 16 16k; fastcgi_buffer_size 32k; } location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ { expires max; log_not_found off; } }