title: Nginx, Wordpress 3.9.2 and rewrites result in 404
body: <p>I have never used Nginx before but I wanted to try it as an experiment and I am lost trying to setup pretty URLs up in Wordpress.</p>
  
  <p>However if I setup up Permalinks up to be anything other than query stings, it results in 404's being thrown when try to go to a rewrote URL.</p>
  
  <p>This is my Nginx conf could someone please let me know what I am doing wrong? I've tried multiple answers on similar questions without any luck.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Ngix Conf</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>server {
      listen 80 default_server;
      listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
  
      root /var/www/;
      index index.php index.html index.htm;
  
      # Make site accessible from http://localhost/
      server_name site.co.uk;
  
      client_max_body_size 200M;
  
      location / {
              index index.php index.html index.htm
              try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&amp;$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;
      }
  
      error_page 404 /404.html;
  
      error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
      location = /50x.html {
            root /usr/share/nginx/html;
      }
  
      # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket
      location ~ \.php$ {
              try_files $uri =404;
              fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
              fastcgi_index index.php;
              fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
              include fastcgi_params;
  
      }
  }
  
  server {
          listen 80;
          server_name www.site.co.uk;
          return 301 $scheme://site.co.uk$request_uri;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So for example if I try to go to site.co.uk/my-account this is where the error happens.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.
  Matt</p>