Nginx configuration for Craft for speaking urls

general.php

<?php

/**
 * General Configuration
 *
 * All of your system's general configuration settings go in here.
 * You can see a list of the default settings in craft/app/etc/config/defaults/general.php
 */

return array(
    'usePathInfo'          => true,
    'omitScriptNameInUrls' => true,
);

Nginx configuration in Laravel Homestead for Craft

## This is a possible configuration for nginx in Laravel Homestead for Craft

your-craft.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name your-craft.dev;
    root "path/to/your/installation";

    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    charset utf-8;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
    }

    location @rewrites {
        rewrite ^(.*) /index.php?p=$1 last;
    }

    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }

    access_log off;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/markus-schober.dev-error.log error;

    sendfile off;

    client_max_body_size 100m;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
        fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
        fastcgi_connect_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_send_timeout 300;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
    }

    error_page 404 /index.php;

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }

    ssl_certificate     /etc/nginx/ssl/markus-schober.dev.crt;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/markus-schober.dev.key;
}