On 03/09/2016 11:20 AM, Mark Haney wrote:

I hope someone can give me an idea on how to get this setup. I'm no WP
expert (never having setup it up prior to a few weeks ago), but this
issue I'd like to find a way to make work.

As I said, we have WP running on an NGINX server which is replacing an
old Joomla server.  The issue has to do with the fact there were several
static PHP pages built over the years on the Joomla server that we don't
want to move manually to the WP server.

The problem is that our Marketing used a lot of these standalone .php
files in ads and such and want those urls to work by redirecting either
to the home page or to specific pages inside WP.  (The latter is not a
must have.)

The problem is that I can't figure out a way to have NGINX test for a
particular .php file and if it's not there, redirect to (or display) a
404 page inside wordpress.  In every case, when NGINX tries to find that
.php file it throws up the NGINX 404 page.

I can build a custom 404 page, but Marketing wants to use the page
inside WP.  There are several configs floating around that appear to
solve the problem, but none of them work for me.  I've been told this is
possible, but I've not found the answer if its out there.  Someone got
any ideas?

I've attached my config file if that will help.

I'm sure you've tried this, but inside your "server {" section, add

        error_page 404 /page/you/want/to/display/on/404/error;

before your first "location" directive. Theoretically, the "/" should
go through your "location /" section and do a try_files on
"/page/you/want/to/display/on/404/error" via the @wordpress stuff.

Ideally you do:

        error_page 404 /custom_404.html

and a

        location /custom_404.html {
                root /path/to/your/wordpress/404/error/doc/root;
                internal;
        }

That way you absolutely define the directory that contains the "custom_404.html" file, and the "internal" directive means that
location is only available to nginx's internal operations (it can't
be browsed).
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