WordPress + nginx config

fastcgi_params.conf

fastcgi_index        index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info  ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;

fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
fastcgi_send_timeout 300;

fastcgi_ignore_client_abort       off;
fastcgi_intercept_errors          on;
fastcgi_connect_timeout           120;
fastcgi_buffer_size               128k;
fastcgi_buffers               4   128k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size         256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size      256k;

#fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED    $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $fastcgi_path_info;
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

# In our dev configs we have PHP + nginx + ssh running as the same user for simplicity
user my_nginx_user;
worker_processes  1;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;

# Enable access log
    log_format main
        '$request_time $upstream_response_time '
        '$http_x_forwarded_for, '
        '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] '
        '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
        '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

wordpress.conf

# file location: /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress.conf

index  index.php index.html index.htm;

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  wordpress.local;
#   access_log  /var/log/nginx/wordpress.local.access.log;
    client_max_body_size 128M;
    client_body_buffer_size 128k;

    ## Set the real IP.
    proxy_set_header True-Client-IP  $http_true_client_ip;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP       $remote_addr;

    ## Set the hostname
    proxy_set_header Host            $host;

    ## Set the forwarded-for header.
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

## Default location
    root   /var/www/sites/wordpress/;

    # Check if files/directory exist, if not rewrite to index.php
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
    }

    # Add trailing slash to */wp-admin requests.
    rewrite /wp-admin$ $scheme://$host$uri/ permanent;

    location ~ \.php$ {
    	gzip off;

        fastcgi_pass   phpfcgi;

        include fastcgi_params;
    }

## Images and static content is treated different
    location ~* ^.+.(ico|jpg|png|css|js|gif|jpeg|swf|htm|html)$ {
#     access_log        off;
      expires           30d;
    }

## Don't log requests for favicon
    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found   off;
        access_log      off;
        expires         30d;
        }

## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
    }
}

upstream phpfcgi {
    server 127.0.0.1:9000;
}