Install Wordpress on ISPconfig3 (NGINX webserver)

[Rashef]

Sorry to bother again, But NGINX is driving me crazy!

I clueless migrated most of the Wordpress instances on ISPconfig3 running NGINX. Thanks to previous posts and Google I solved all the issues so far.

Now I need to install a Wordpress from scratch. I created a new website on ISPconfig3, I uploaded the last version of Wordpress and when I try and open index.php (as well as any other address) I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

I noticed this error in the log:

FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Warning:  file_exists(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(wp-config.php) is not within the allowed path(s):

I don't really understand this error, but I manually created the wp-config.php anyway. Now I keep getting the Error 500, but there's no error in any log (system, NGINX nor php-fpm).

Anything else I can try? :-(

[Rashef]

Let me correct myself! It's not only about Wordpress installation because also the new migration are failing. Precisely, the instances I migrated the very first days are working like a charme, now it looks like every new site (VHOST) could only show the welcome HTML page... :-S

And I cannot find any error anywhere yet...

[Rashef]

Ok, I'm trying with a Wordpress, wp-config already configured (otherwise I get open_basedir restriction in effect. File(wp-config.php) is not within the allowed path(s), that I don't understand either). I get 500 Internal Server Error if I try and open index.php. A test PHP page with a PHPinfo works.

This is the access.log:

[04/Feb/2013:12:50:46 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 500 1851 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.57 Safari/537.17"

Error.log is empty...

[till]

Are there any items listed in the jobqueue in the ispconfig monitor?

[Rashef]

Originally Posted by till

Are there any items listed in the jobqueue in the ispconfig monitor?

No it's empty...

[Rashef]

I have the feeling I'm overshooting some threshold or limit because I already migrated 4 Wordpress instances and 2 single-HTML-page websites flawlessly.

I'm trying and migrating other Wordpress instances following the same procedure and with the same directives:

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

       # Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
       rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

       location ~*  \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|css|js|ico)$ {
                expires max;
                log_not_found off;
       }
fastcgi_buffers 8 16k;
fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;

(just in case you're wondering, I also tried with no directives).
I know that NGINX has this "generic 500 error" as a security measure, but there must be some more specific log, isn't it?

[Rashef]

After many hours spent on this, I have to give up. I'm afraid that despite the amazing performances I was experiencing with NGINX I'll have to switch back to Apache.

Thanks for your immeasurable support, as usual!