Unable to rewrite url in Nginx to login as admin on wordpress

Question

I'm running Wordpress containerized in docker-compose, but for some reason I can't enter http://localhost/wp-admin to login to the dashboard. I get a 404 error from nginx.

This url does work instead: http://localhost/wp/wp-login.php

So I'm trying to rewrite this in nginx, but I get the same 404 response:

    rewrite ^wp-admin$ wp/wp-login.php last;

Why isn't this working?

Full conf:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name localhost;
    root /var/www/html/web;

    index index.php index.html;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;

    # add url to login as admin
    rewrite ^wp-admin$ wp/wp-login.php last;

    # fix slash
    rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 permanent;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass php:9000;
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
    }
}

Answer 1

Try This

Assuming you have a wp-login.php inside /var/www/html/web/wp

  location = /wp-admin {
        rewrite ^/wp-admin?$ /wp/wp-login.php break;
  }

my guess is you're trying to change the WP admin location, this will most likely break the WordPress site. if so Don't.