WordPress, nginx proxy and subdirectory: wp-login.

Question

In my NGINX configuration, a WordPress blog is on a private server. My NGINX public server proxies the private server's content for https://www.example.com/blog/.

location ^~ /blog/ {    # A "subdirectory", hiding a proxied server

    proxy_pass              http://192.168.0.5:80/;    # The blog resides in the 
                                                       # private's web root, 
                                                       # not in a subdirectory
    proxy_set_header        Host $host;
    proxy_set_header        X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
    proxy_redirect          off;
}

The blog is perfectly rendered on calling the domain and subdirectory. Bringing up wp-login does not generate a redirect GET field.

https://www.example.com/blog/wp-login.php

My siteurl and my home variables are both set to the domain with subdirectory.

However, after a successful login, I may see the dashboard, but the URL in my browser gets rewritten to https://www.example.com/wp-admin, causing problems on using the dashboard.

How do I configure WP to rewrite the URL to the subdirectory, although the blog is on a proxied private server?

(Do the subdirectories in the servers have to be symmetrical?)

Answer 1

WordPress uses two variables to define where it is hosted: WP_HOME and WP_SITEURL. Both can be set using the dashboard, but I prefer to set them in wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://www.example.com/blog' );
define( 'WP_HOME', 'https://www.example.com/blog' );

It is usual to set an absolute URL (as above) which includes scheme and host name, but I prefer to use a relative URL when operating behind a reverse-proxy, like this:

define( 'WP_SITEURL', '/blog' );
define( 'WP_HOME', '/blog' );

You can probably continue to run WordPress in the root of your private server (assuming it isn't accessed directly). Moving the private server down one level is a little more complicated and involves the web server configuration on both servers to be changed a little.

Answer 2

I have also met with same problem, I found a workaround, to fix the issue, add below code to wp-config.php

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = str_replace("/wp-admin/", "/blog/wp-admin/",  $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);