Using wordpress as a subdirectory of a drupal installation?

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 with NginX 0.7.65.

I have Drupal installed in the root directory and it works perfectly with an appropriately configured vhost file, but now I would like to install Wordpress in a subdirectory on the same domain. When I go to example.com/wordpress, it results in a 404 error and is handled by Drupal. Here is my vhost file:

    server {
        server_name www.example.com example.com;
        access_log /srv/www/example.com/logs/access.log;
        error_log /srv/www/example.com/logs/error.log;
        root /srv/www/example.com/public_html;

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

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

        # This matters if you use drush
        location = /backup {
                deny all;
        }

        # Very rarely should these ever be accessed outside of your lan
        location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
                allow 192.168.0.0/16;
                deny all;
        }

        location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
                return 403;
        }

        location / {
                # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
                try_files $uri @rewrite;
        }

        location @rewrite {
                # Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
                # Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
                rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include conf-inc.d/fastcgi.conf;
                track_uploads uploads 60s;
        }

        # The Nginx module wants ?X-Progress-ID query parameter so
        # that it report the progress of the upload through a GET
        # request. But the drupal form element makes use of clean
        # URLs in the POST.
        location ~ (.*)/x-progress-id:(\w*) {
                rewrite ^(.*)/x-progress-id:(\w*)  $1?X-Progress-ID=$2;
        }

        # Now the above rewrite must be matched by a location that
        # activates it and references the above defined upload
        # tracking zone.
        location ^~ /progress {
                report_uploads uploads;
        }

        # Fighting with ImageCache? This little gem is amazing.
        location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/imagecache/ {
                try_files $uri @rewrite;
        }

        # Catch image styles for D7 too.
        location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/styles/ {
                try_files $uri @rewrite;
        }

        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
                expires max;
                log_not_found off;
        }

        # Deny access to Apache .htaccess files.
        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }

}

Do you know if Wordpress is properly installed at all? Plus can you get directly to some of the files e.g. http://example.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/style.css . You also might want to try asking this on http://wordpress.stackexchange.com — icc97, Mar 06 '12 at 17:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:41

_{Get inspiration from answer at similar thread on SO}

The problem is this location directive for php-fallback

location / {
        # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
        try_files $uri @rewrite;
}

location @rewrite {
        # Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
        # Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
}

With this configuration you rewrite all request to drupal index.php, including your wordpress files. The solution is defining one location block to handle php-fallback for wordpress

location  /wordpress {
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php;
}

In this location you rewrite all request to wordpress index.php.

Using wordpress as a subdirectory of a drupal installation?

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