nginx + wordpress (plesk default config issue?)

Hello, something is odd to me and I don't know enough, other than asking a good question


1) default install of nginx and all is good. installed WP at root of domain.
2) FPM via nginx is selected
3) the blog is installed and it has NO htaccess file

4) here is my findings and odd thing, plus question:

a) IF I HAVE THIS in the apache & nginx 'additional directives' == the blog works fine and the permalinks work too

if (!-f $request_filename){
set $rule_1 1$rule_1;
}
if (!-d...

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