Configure Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 to serve WordPress website

Clone Git repo on server

SSH into your Ubuntu server and clone the Git repo into a desired location. Let’s assume:

• Git repo is git@github.com:sajadtorkamani/wordpress-deployer-example.git
• Repo location in filesystem is /home/sajad/sites/wordpress-deployer-example

# /home/sajad/sites/wordpress-deployer-example
git clone git@github.com:sajadtorkamani/wordpress-deployer-example.git

Create Nginx config

sudo vim /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress-deployer-example.sajadtorkamani.com

Set its contents to:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name wordpress-deployer-example.sajadtorkamani.com www.wordpress-deployer-example.sajadtorkamani.com;
    root /home/sajad/sites/wordpress-deployer-example/;

    index index.php index.html;
    
    location = /favicon.ico {
      log_not_found off;
      access_log off;
    }

    location = /robots.txt {
      allow all;
      log_not_found off;
      access_log off;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.0-fpm.sock; # Change as needed
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
     }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

This config assumes you’ve already configured your DNS records to point wordpress-deployer-example.sajadtorkamani.com to your server’s public IP address. Also note that if using a long server name like in the above config, you’ll want to edit the Nginx config .

Activate config.

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress-deployer-example.sajadtorkamani.com /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Reload nginx.

sudo nginx -s reload

Verify configuration

Now, visit wordpress-deployer-example.sajadtorkamani.com and you should see the WordPress website.