Enable OSWallpaper SEO URLs on Nginx

First enable the clean url by editing config.php (inside includes folder).

//enable mod rewrite urls. 0=disabled, 1=enabled for SEO Friendly URLS
$Gbl["ManualModRewrite"] = 1;

The original rewrite rule (Apache) for the script are as follows :

RewriteEngine On
#PAGES
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/$ index.php?p=$1 [L]
# CATEGORY
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ index.php?p=$1&i=$2 [L]
# CATEGORY PAGES
RewriteRule ^([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/$ index.php?p=$1&i=$2&pg=$3 [L]

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WordPress Permalinks on Nginx

First open your nginx configuration file.

nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

But if you set up a virtual host, you should open the virtual host configuration for the host where you install wordpress. If you are using Debian, the configuration files is located at /etc/nginx/sites-available/. The following command should do that.

nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/example.com

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Nginx : Rewrite Rule for Wallpaper Site Creator

Nginx is a lightweight web server and mail proxy server. It was written by Igor Sysoev. Compare to Apache web server, nginx uses less resources. Beside that nginx configuration is pretty simple and easy to understand. If you using Apache and want to switch to nginx. The only thing that you should take care is your rewrite rule. As you know nginx doesn’t support .htaccess, you have to completely rewrite all of yours rewrite rule. But today I will share my rewrite rule for Wallpaper Site Creator script.

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Configuring WordPress to send email using Gmail on Debian

1. Install ssmtp using the following command.

apt-get install ssmtp

2. Edit ssmtp.conf

nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Now update or add the following configuration to the ssmtp.conf

mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
AuthUser=user@gmail.com
AuthPass=YourGmailPassword
FromLineOverride=YES
UseSTARTTLS=YES

You should replace user@gmail.com with your gmail email address.

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