Kim Ellefsen

I had a really hard time trying to figure out the rewrite rules for WordPress MU using Nginx. This is what worked for me.

# This is cool because no php is touched for static content
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;

#rewrite for blog files
rewrite ^.*/files/(.*) /wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 last;

if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^.+/?(/wp-.*) $1 last;
        rewrite ^.+/?(/.*\.php)$ $1 last;
       rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
}

I tried everything, and this is the only thing that worked for me on WordPress 3.0.4. I placed this outside of the location directive, and directly into server {

To make /wp-admin work, I added a rewrite rule that would redirect any access to /wp-admin to the main site url /wp-admin/. Works good for single user sites, but fails off course on a multiuser setup.

rewrite ^/(.+/)?wp-admin$ http://domain1.com/$1wp-admin/ permanent;