How to do it...

In this instance, we're simply using a standalone WordPress site, which would be deployed in many personal and business scenarios. This is the typical deployment for WordPress.

For ease of management, I've created a dedicated config file just for the WordPress site (/etc/nginx/conf.d/wordpress.conf):

server { 
    listen       80; 
    server_name  wordpressdemo.nginxcookbook.com; 
 
    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  combined; 
 
    location / { 
        root   /var/www/html; 
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;     
    } 
 
    location ~ \.php$ { 
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7.0-fpm.sock; 
        fastcgi_index index.php; 
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME 
         $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; 
        include fastcgi_params; 
    } 
} 

Reload NGINX to read the new configuration file and check your log files if there are any errors. If you're installing WordPress from scratch, you should see the following:

You can complete the WordPress installation if you haven't already.