seeing 404 Not Found nginx/1.26.2 in wordpress appservice, how to fix?

Question

i have created an appservice - PHP

extracted Wordpress files to home/sites/wwwroot

added db details to wp-config

but seeing 404 Not Found

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nginx/1.26.2
in browser

Answer 1

Hello @Jency Jacob,

The NGINX isn’t correctly serving WordPress site. This is caused by one of the following issues:

• NGINX isn’t not installed WordPress in (/home/site/wwwroot).
• Missing or incorrect configuration in default.conf.
• PHP files are not being processed correctly by PHP-FPM.

Here’s how to fix it:

Update NGINX Configuration

Connect to your App Service via SSH:

 https://yoursite.scm.azurewebsites.net/webssh/host

Copy the existing NGINX config for editing:

 cp /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf /home/dev/default.conf

Open /home/dev/default.conf in a text editor and replace its contents with:

    server {

        listen 80;

        server_name mysite.azurewebsites.net;

        root /home/site/wwwroot;

        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        location / {

            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

        }
        location ~ \.php$ {

            include fastcgi_params;

            fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

            fastcgi_index index.php;

            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

        }

        error_page 404 /index.php;
    }

Apply the Configuration via a Startup Script

    nano /home/dev/startup.sh

Add the following content:

    echo "Copying custom default.conf over to /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf"

    cp /home/dev/default.conf /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf
    nginx -s reload   

    chmod +x /home/dev/startup.sh

Run the following command to reload NGINX with the new configuration:

nginx -s reload

Alternatively, restart the App Service from the Azure Portal.

If you're still getting a 404 error, check for errors in the logs:

For more details refer this DOC for NGINX’s configuration when using Wordpress on App Service.

Hope this helps!

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