Post name Permalink gives 404 error

I have setup my first AWS EC2 account and installed nginx. The root is /usr/share/nginx/html. I have installed WordPress as a sub-folder called cooking under root. the site address is http://54.226.50.133/cooking.

As long as I have permalink setup as Plain, pages are coming up ok, but when I update permalink structure to use Post Name, I get 404 error.

http://54.226.50.133/cooking/?p=1 – runs OK
http://54.226.50.133/cooking/hello-world/ – gives 404

Physical folder structure: /usr/share/nginx/html/cooking

Location of .htaccess file is /usr/share/nginx/html/cooking/.htaccess

Content of .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I am not sure but multisite might be a solution but I don’t want to go this far to start with, rather I want to keep it simple. I will need more sub-folders (different WP installations) like this under the root for demonstration purpose.

What I am doing wrong?

• This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
• This topic was modified 8 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress

The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]