That's pretty close to the solution I came up with. I'm really kind of shocked that there wasn't a clear cut example configuration on how to handle this particular issue. Though, I'm willing to bet very few people have dealt with the chaos that is this old site. It being a mixture of Joomla and standalone PHP files has been a thorn in my side since I inherited the thing 2 years ago. A custom WP 404 page was already in place, and our Marketing department was insistent on using it instead of a standalone copy of that same page, mainly because they were dead set on not having missing standalone PHP page redirect to that custom 404 page, but redirect to particular pages *inside wordpress*. This left me with a lot fewer options, but the one I came up with seems to work perfectly.
The new 'working' config I included if anyone is interested, but the way I
found to cover all my bases is to have the @wordpress location just call
the WP index.php file if all else fails. In our case there's a WP
component that handles redirects for those missing .php files, some of
which go to the custom 404 page, some to blog entries. It seems pretty
simple in hindsight, but I wasn't sure that would even work properly.
Granted, this is probably a very uncommon problem, but this does appear to
work, and even better than I expected. All I was hoping for was to get
everything that failed to the Custom 404 page.
I will say, the more I've worked with nginx, the better I like it.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:
> On 03/09/2016 11:20 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> I hope someone can give me an idea on how to get this setup. I'm no WP
>> expert (never having setup it up prior to a few weeks ago), but this
>> issue I'd like to find a way to make work.
>>
>> As I said, we have WP running on an NGINX server which is replacing an
>> old Joomla server. The issue has to do with the fact there were several
>> static PHP pages built over the years on the Joomla server that we don't
>> want to move manually to the WP server.
>>
>> The problem is that our Marketing used a lot of these standalone .php
>> files in ads and such and want those urls to work by redirecting either
>> to the home page or to specific pages inside WP. (The latter is not a
>> must have.)
>>
>> The problem is that I can't figure out a way to have NGINX test for a
>> particular .php file and if it's not there, redirect to (or display) a
>> 404 page inside wordpress. In every case, when NGINX tries to find that
>> .php file it throws up the NGINX 404 page.
>>
>> I can build a custom 404 page, but Marketing wants to use the page
>> inside WP. There are several configs floating around that appear to
>> solve the problem, but none of them work for me. I've been told this is
>> possible, but I've not found the answer if its out there. Someone got
>> any ideas?
>>
>> I've attached my config file if that will help.
>>
>
> I'm sure you've tried this, but inside your "server {" section, add
>
> error_page 404 /page/you/want/to/display/on/404/error;
>
> before your first "location" directive. Theoretically, the "/" should
> go through your "location /" section and do a try_files on
> "/page/you/want/to/display/on/404/error" via the @wordpress stuff.
>
> Ideally you do:
>
> error_page 404 /custom_404.html
>
> and a
>
> location /custom_404.html {
> root /path/to/your/wordpress/404/error/doc/root;
> internal;
> }
>
> That way you absolutely define the directory that contains the
> "custom_404.html" file, and the "internal" directive means that
> location is only available to nginx's internal operations (it can't
> be browsed).
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