404 error on downloading file in WP Engine hosting

If you host your website in a WP Engine server you may encounter 404 errors on some type of files. This is because WP Engine uses a proxy with a particular configuration. First of all, if you have changed the default SEO url in the plugin configuration page, please note this value and replace it in the first line of the code we provide in the next lines: (location ~* ^/replace_here_if_you_have_changed_it/* {). Then please contact directly the WP Engine support https://wpengine.com/support/ and provide this information: We use the WP File Download plugin from Joomunited. When this plugin is used under your environment we encounter 404 errors when we try to download files managed by this plugin. This question has already been asked to the WP Engine and you fixed it for other customers according to the following explanation. The WP File Download plugin generates files url that are processed by a php script. For example: /downloads/14/category/11/file.pdf is internally redirected, by the default htaccess rules, to the main index.php file. But as you're serving static files through an Nginx proxy and if the file is not found, the proxy returns a 404 error and the index.php script is never called. In order to fix this 404 error, we need you to add to our site's "Before" rules these lines. location ~* ^/download/* { proxy_pass $dynamic_upstream_read_only; }

404-fejl ved download af fil i WP Engine-hosting

Hvis du hoster din hjemmeside på en WP Engine-server, kan du støde på 404-fejl på visse typer filer.
Dette skyldes, at WP Engine bruger en proxy med en bestemt konfiguration.

Først og fremmest, hvis du har ændret standard SEO-url'en på plugin-konfigurationssiden, bedes du notere denne værdi og erstatte den i den første linje af den kode, vi angiver i de næste linjer: (placering ~* ^/replace_here_if_you_have_changed_it/* {).

Kontakt derefter WP Engine support direkte https://wpengine.com/support/ og angiv disse oplysninger:

Vi bruger WP File Download pluginnet fra Joomunited. Når dette plugin bruges i dit miljø, støder vi på 404-fejl, når vi forsøger at downloade filer, der administreres af dette plugin.

Dette spørgsmål er allerede blevet stillet til WP Engine, og du har rettet det for andre kunder i henhold til følgende forklaring.

WP WP File Download pluginnet genererer fil-URL'er, der behandles af et php-script.
For eksempel: /downloads/14/category/11/file.pdf omdirigeres internt, via standard htaccess-reglerne, til hovedfilen index.php.

Men da du serverer statiske filer via en Nginx-proxy, og hvis filen ikke findes, returnerer proxyen en 404-fejl, og index.php-scriptet kaldes aldrig.

For at rette denne 404-fejl, skal du tilføje disse linjer til vores websteds "Før"-regler.

placering ~* ^/download/* { proxy_pass $dynamic_upstream_read_only; }