nginx server configuration for a wordpress instance served from a URL’s subdirectory

server {
  server_name www.gubatron.com;
  listen 80;
  listen [::]:80;
  root /media/ebs/data/websites/gubatron.com/;
  index index.php index.html index.htm;

  # wordpress lives at gubatron.com/blog/...
  rewrite ^/blog/wp-admin/(.*) /blog/wp-admin/$1;
  #search redirect                                                                                                       
  rewrite ^/blog/(.*)s=(.*)$ /blog/index.php?s=$2;
  try_files $uri $uri/ /blog/index.php$is_args$args;

  location ~ \.php {
    include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
    include fastcgi_params;
  }
  location ~ \.git {
    deny all;
  }
}

$HTTP["host"] =~ "^gubatron.com$|^www.gubatron.com$" {
  server.document-root="/media/ebs/data/websites/gubatron.com/"

  $HTTP["url"] =~ "\.git" {
     url.access-deny = ("")
  }

  url.rewrite = (
            "^/blog/wp-admin/(.*)" => "$0",
            "^/blog/(.*)\.(.+)$" => "$0",
            "^/blog/(.+)/?$" => "/blog/index.php/$1"
  )
}