WordPress blog posts permalinks giving 404 on nginx
You should use the ^~ prefix on the location statement, change the alias statement to root /var/www;, and change the last parameter of the try_files statement. For example: location ^~ /blog/ { autoindex on; root /var/www; index index.php; try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php?$args; location ~ \.php$ { include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock; } }