404 Not Found – Pages and Sitemap

Hello,

I’m running WordPress on Nginx and Varnish on Ubuntu 14.01, Digital Ocean VPS. When navigating to ‘Page’ content types on my site, I get a theme-generated ‘404 Not Found’, e.g. https://www.seeuncharted.com/about-2/

My Sitemap generates a Nginx ‘404 Not Found’ page, e.g. https://www.seeuncharted.com/sitemap_index.xml

I’ve added some rewrite rules to my Nginx config, which has addressed the Nginx generated ‘404 Not Found ‘ messages I was receiving on all pages except the home page. It doesn’t seem to address the issues I’ve described above. The errors occur with Permalinks set to ‘post name’.

Below is my Nginx config. Please review and let me know what adjustments I can make to my config to resolve the issues I’ve outlined above. Recommendations on W3TC settings for my setup are appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance.

1. Nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes 1;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
worker_connections 1024;
# multi_accept on;
}

http {

##
# Basic Settings
##

sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
client_body_timeout 12;
client_header_timeout 12;
keepalive_timeout 15;
send_timeout 10;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;

# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;

include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;

##
# Logging Settings
##

#access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

##
# Buffer Settings
##

client_body_buffer_size 10K;
client_header_buffer_size 1k;
client_max_body_size 8m;
large_client_header_buffers 2 32k;
fastcgi_buffers 8 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
fastcgi_read_timeout 300;

##
# Gzip Settings
##

gzip on;
gzip_disable “msie6”;

# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_min_length 1000;
gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_types text/plain application/x-javascript text/xml text/css application/xml;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

##
# nginx-naxsi config
##
# Uncomment it if you installed nginx-naxsi
##

#include /etc/nginx/naxsi_core.rules;

##
# nginx-passenger config
##
# Uncomment it if you installed nginx-passenger
##

#passenger_root /usr;
#passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby;

##
# Virtual Host Configs
##

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

set_real_ip_from 127.0.0.1; #Put the Ip of your varnish/proxy here
real_ip_header X-Forwarded-For; #Put the Header that your varnish/proxy set

}

#mail {
# # See sample authentication script at:
# # https://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
# # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
# # pop3_capabilities “TOP” “USER”;
# # imap_capabilities “IMAP4rev1” “UIDPLUS”;
#
# server {
# listen localhost:110;
# protocol pop3;
# proxy on;
# }
#
# server {
# listen localhost:143;
# protocol imap;
# proxy on;
# }
#}

2. Sites Available config

server {
listen xxxx default_server;
listen [::]:xxxx default_server ipv6only=on;
root /path/to/site;
index index.php index.php index.html index.htm;

server_name seeuncharted.com;

location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$args;

include /w3tc/nginx.conf;

include /w3tc/w3rwe.conf; #w3tc rewrite rules

error_page 404 /404.html;

error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;

}

location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}

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)$ {
expires max; log_not_found off; access_log off;

}

}

3. W3TC Nginx Conf

# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache cache
location ~ /wp-content/cache/page_enhanced.*html$ {
add_header Vary Cookie;
}
# END W3TC Page Cache cache
# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core
set $w3tc_rewrite 1;
if ($request_method = POST) {
set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($query_string != “”) {
set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($request_uri !~ \/$) {
set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($http_cookie ~* “(comment_author|wp\-postpass|w3tc_logged_out|wordpress_logged_in|wptouch_switch_toggle)”) {
set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
set $w3tc_ua “”;
if ($http_user_agent ~* “(acer\ s100|android|archos5|bada|bb10|blackberry9500|blackberry9530|blackberry9550|blackberry\ 9800|cupcake|docomo\ ht\-03a|dream|froyo|googlebot-mobile|htc\ hero|htc\ magic|htc_dream|htc_magic|iemobile/7.0|incognito|ipad|iphone|ipod|kindle|lg\-gw620|liquid\ build|maemo|mot\-mb200|mot\-mb300|nexus\ 7|nexus\ one|opera\ mini|s8000|samsung\-s8000|series60.*webkit|series60/5\.0|sonyericssone10|sonyericssonu20|sonyericssonx10|t\-mobile\ mytouch\ 3g|t\-mobile\ opal|tattoo|touch|webmate|webos)”) { set $w3tc_ua _high;
}
if ($http_cookie ~* “(w3tc_preview)”) {
set $w3tc_rewrite _preview;
}
set $w3tc_ref “”;
if ($http_cookie ~* “w3tc_referrer=.*(ask\.com|bing\.com|google\.com|msn\.com|yahoo\.com)”) {
set $w3tc_ref _search_engines;
}
set $w3tc_ssl “”;
if ($scheme = https) {
set $w3tc_ssl _ssl;
}
set $w3tc_ext “”;
if (-f “$document_root/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/$http_host/$request_uri/_index$w3tc_ua$w3tc_ref$w3tc_ssl$w3tc_rewrite.html”) {
set $w3tc_ext .html;
}
if (-f “$document_root/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/$http_host/$request_uri/_index$w3tc_ua$w3tc_ref$w3tc_ssl$w3tc_rewrite.xml”) {
set $w3tc_ext .xml;
}
if ($w3tc_ext = “”) {
set $w3tc_rewrite 0;
}
if ($w3tc_rewrite = 1) {
rewrite .* “/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/$http_host/$request_uri/_index$w3tc_ua$w3tc_ref$w3tc_ssl$w3tc_rewrite$w3tc_ext” last;
}
# END W3TC Page Cache core

4. W3TC rewrite rules

location / {
rewrite ^(.*\/)?w3tc_rewrite_test/?$ $1?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 last;
if ($w3tc_rewrite = 1) {
rewrite .* “/wp-content/cache/page_enhanced/$http_host/$request_uri/_index$w3tc_rewrite$w3tc_ext” last;
}
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

#Test Rewrites
location ~ ^/wp-content/cache/minify/[^/]+/(w3tc.*)$ {
try_files $uri /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/minify.php?w3tc_rewrite_test=$1;
}
#End Test Rewrites

# BEGIN W3TC Minify core
set $w3tc_enc “”;
location ~ ^/wp-content/cache/minify/(.+/[X]+\.css)$ {
try_files $uri /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/minify.php?test_file=$1;
}
location ~ ^/wp-content/cache/minify/(.+\.(css|js))$ {
try_files $uri /wp-content/plugins/w3-total-cache/pub/minify.php?file=$1;
}

# END W3TC Minify core

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