Bypass Rules for NGINX hosted websites
Episodes won't play? Sent here via a notification from Seriously Simple Podcasting?
If your podcast player doesn't seem to be playing your episodes and you're receiving a 404 Not Found error when trying to download or open the episode file in a new window, it's likely that your site is hosted on a server utilizing NGINX.
Due to the unique ways each server is set up, they may require a certain rule to be added to your site’s configuration (not your site's wp-config.php file) in order for Seriously Simple Podcasting to work correctly.
In order to do this, you'll need to submit a support request to them and send them the following message:
# Seriously Simple Podcasting
rewrite podcast-download/([^/]+)/([^/]*)/? /index.php?podcast_episode=$1 break;
rewrite podcast-player/([^/]+)/([^/]*)/? /index.php?podcast_episode=$1&podcast_ref=player break;
Once they add the bypass rules and restart the NGINX service, your episodes will be accessible and your player will begin to work appropriately.