After having transitioned from Apache to Nginx as the web service for this blog, I noticed an immediate drop-off from search engine traffic to links outside of the index page. Just attributing it to blind bad luck for a few days, I later realized that permalinks were broken because I didn’t correctly translate the rewrite rules from the Apache configuration to Nginx.
Apache config for WordPress permalinks:
Options FollowSymLinks
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Correct equivalent Nginx config:
location / {
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
For a minute I thought search engines were blacklisting me for unpopular opinions on this blog. Don’t attribute to malice what can be attributed to (my own) stupidity.
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