nginx Example config for wp

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I can't take credit. Adam Lewis - awesome dev created one and I've taken what he's done.

nginx-example-config.conf

server {
    listen  80;

    server_name somesite.com; 
    
    root  /var/www/vhosts/somewebsite/public;

    # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server
    #
    # See conf.d/php-fpm.conf for socket configuration
    #
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        include        fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_pass   php-fpm;
    }


    # WordPressy stuff
    
    # 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;
    }

    location / {
        index index.php index.html index.htm;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }
    
    # Caching
    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|woff|woff2|svg)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
    }
    
    # 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;
    }
}