Example config file for a php vhost on nginx, implementing a couple of best practices from http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls.

nginx-php-vhost.conf

server {
	server_name	www.domain.com;
	root	/home/vhosts/www.domain.com/public;

	location / {
		index  index.php index.html index.htm index.phtml;
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php; # http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Check_IF_File_Exists
	}

	location ~ \.php$ {
		try_files $uri =404; # http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#Passing_Uncontrolled_Requests_to_PHP
		fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:49232;
		fastcgi_index  index.php;
		fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; # http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls#FastCGI_Path_in_Script_Filename
		include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;                                       
	}
}