Nginx configuration for Wordpress 3.3.1

fastcgi_params

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

nginx.conf

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name sample.com www.sample.com;
        root /home/sites/sample.com;
        index index.php;

        client_max_body_size 10M; // See also php.ini's post_max_size, upload_max_filesize directives.

        location / {
                # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
                try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
        }

        location @rewrites {
                # Can put some of your own rewrite rules in here
                # for example rewrite ^/~(.*)/(.*)/? /users/$1/$2 last;
                # If nothing matches we'll just send it to /index.php
                rewrite ^ /index.php last;
        }
 
        location = /robots.txt  { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
        location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }

        # Deny all attempts to access hidden files such as .htaccess, .htpasswd, .DS_Store (Mac).
        location ~ /\. { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; }


        location ~ \.php$ {
                #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_intercept_errors on; 
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        }

        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
                expires max;
                add_header Pragma public;
                add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
                log_not_found off;
        }
}