A customer asked me to add a SRV record to their domain but documentation on how to add this record is very slim.

To add the SRV record:

1. Open the zone file > Records > Select SRV:

2. Enter the record details similar to the following (insert your own records):

3. You will notice there is no option to set priority. To do this we need to modify the DNS record in the database. Navigate to your phpmyadmin (e.g. http://10.10.10.10/phpmyadmin). Lookup the domain in the dns_rr table and edit the record, changing aux to the priority value (100 in this case):

4. That’s everything in place now perform a lookup with MX Toolbox:

Following on from the ISPConfig3 running on nginx tutorial I then came to installing a WordPress site within ISPConfig. Piece of cake, right?

So I went about the usual process of setting up a new site and database within the ISPConfig interface. Then I grabbed the latest WordPress (wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz), placing it in the correct location inside the “web” directory for this particular site. Ownership/permissions were then updated – everything as per normal in this environment.

I then enter the URL into my browser and low and behold the WordPress home page appeared. Great! Until I browsed to any other page within the test site:

ERROR 404 – Not Found!

From a considerable bit of Googling I found the following piece of code needs to be appended to your nginx Directives (ISPConfig > Website > Options)

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

Restarted nginx and we’re back in business. All pages loading as they should.