Nginx Wordpress Permalinks without index.php

Question

I have nginx running with php 7 fpm. My Wordpress permalinks are setup with /%postname%/ . assuming my domain is example.com I want to have permalinks like that: example.com/postname/ But this leads to an error. I can find the post with this link: example.com/index.php?postname/

How do I get rid of the index.php? in the links?

Edit

My Nginx config

server {
        server_name localhost;
        root /var/www/;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;

        location ~\.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass php:9000;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
                fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $args;
        }

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$args;
        }

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

Answer 1

You question implies that WordPress is installed at location / , so I am not sure why you have a location /wordpress also.

There are some issues with your configuration.

The value for REQUEST_URI should be set to $request_uri which is probably already the default value in the fastcgi_params file. This is the parameter that index.php uses to decode the pretty permalink.

Delete the line fastcgi_param REQUEST_URI $args; .

Your try_files statement is missing a ? . Use either:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

Or:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

I have found that passing $args to /index.php is not necessary with WordPress.