# try for WordPress index.php in / # fall back to index.php + args (passed to php-fpm later) # also serves static files from the disk instead of passing to interpreter, location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png|svg)$ { add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=604800"; } # Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests. rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent; # Deny access to any files with a .php extension in the uploads directory # Works in sub-directory installs and also in multisite network # Keep logging the requests to parse later (or to pass to firewall utilities such as fail2ban) location ~* /(?:uploads|files)/.*\.php$ { deny all; }