wordpress-nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 100000;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
	worker_connections 10240;
	# multi_accept on;
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	keepalive_timeout 30;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;
	server_tokens off;

	# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

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

	gzip_vary on;
	gzip_proxied any;
	gzip_comp_level 6;
	gzip_buffers 16 8k;
	gzip_http_version 1.1;
	gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

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

HHVM Hack and Nginx https://github.com/webdev1001/hhnginx

permissions.sh shell script for WordPress installs to set file and directory permissions and ownership. Change the path to fit your install. Make sure to 'chmod 700 permissions.sh' before using './permissions.sh' to run it.

file permissions.sh :

!/bin/bash

find /var/www/public -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
find /var/www/public -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/public

https://gist.github.com/chuckreynolds/11250053