nginx configuration for WordPress

Added on May 18th, 2012 and marked as config nginx webserver wordpress

Example of a nginx config file for use with WordPress:

server
{
    server_name .{DOM}.{TLD};
    access_log /var/log/nginx/{DOM}.{TLD}.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/{DOM}.{TLD}.error.log;
    root /home/sites/{DOM}.{TLD}/www;

    # The index directive is set in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.
    # It is not necessary to enable it here.
    # index index.php index.html index.htm;

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

    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }

    location ~* .(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
    }

    # use fastcgi for all php files
    location ~ .php$
    {
        # To use a socket instead of a port, place a comment before the next line
        # and remove the comment from the second line.
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
#       fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm/{DOM}.{TLD}.sock;

        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    # deny access to apache .htaccess files
    location ~ /.ht
    {
        deny all;
    }
}

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