# W3TC config rules based on http://elivz.com/blog/single/wordpress_with_w3tc_on_nginx/ server { listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied #listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6 # Tell nginx to handle requests for the www.mysite.com domain server_name www.mysite.com mysite.com; if ($host != 'mysite.com') { rewrite ^/(.*) http://mysite.com/$1 permanent; } index index.php index.html index.htm; root /srv/www/mysite.com/public_html; access_log /srv/www/mysite.com/logs/access.log; error_log /srv/www/mysite.com/logs/error.log; # Use gzip compression # gzip_static on; # Uncomment if you compiled Nginx using --with-http_gzip_static_module gzip on; gzip_disable "msie6"; gzip_vary on; gzip_proxied any; gzip_comp_level 5; gzip_buffers 16 8k; gzip_http_version 1.0; gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/png image/gif image/jpeg; # Rewrite minified CSS and JS files rewrite ^/wp-content/w3tc/min/([a-f0-9]+)\/(.+)\.(include(\-(footer|body))?(-nb)?)\.[0-9]+\.(css|js)$ /wp-content/w3tc/min/index.php?tt=$1&gg=$2&g=$3&t=$7 last; # Set a variable to work around the lack of nested conditionals set $cache_uri $request_uri; # POST requests and urls with a query string should always go to PHP if ($request_method = POST) { set $cache_uri 'no cache'; } if ($query_string != "") { set $cache_uri 'no cache'; } # Don't cache uris containing the following segments if ($request_uri ~* "(\/wp-admin\/|\/xmlrpc.php|\/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail)\.php|wp-.*\.php|index\.php|wp\-comments\-popup\.php|wp\-links\-opml\.php|wp\-locations\.php)") { set $cache_uri "no cache"; } # Don't use the cache for logged in users or recent commenters if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wp\-postpass|wordpress_logged_in") { set $cache_uri 'no cache'; } # similar to Apache Status - handy for quickly checking the health of nginx location /nginx_status { stub_status on; access_log off; allow all; } # Use cached or actual file if they exists, otherwise pass request to WordPress location / { try_files /wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/$cache_uri/_index.html $uri $uri/ /index.php; } # Cache static files for as long as possible - removed xml as an extension to avoid problems with Yoast WordPress SEO plugin which uses WP rewrite API. location ~* \.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|css|rss|atom|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ { try_files $uri =404; expires max; access_log off; } # Deny access to hidden files location ~* /\.ht { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; } # Pass PHP scripts on to PHP-FPM location ~* \.php$ { try_files $uri /index.php; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name; } }