Howto nginx + wordpress + ubuntu shortest setup

Please refer to my previous post on how to setup nginx + php5 + mysql on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 LTS. This tutorial is based on the setup of that tutorial.

First, you need to grab WordPress

$ cd ~/Sites
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
$ unzip latest.zip

WordPress package will be extracted to $HOME/Sites/wordpress. Next create a virtual host rule for WordPress:

$ sudo nano /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress

Paste following rules into the file:

server{
        listen 80; #or change this to your public IP address eg 1.1.1.1:80
        server_name wordpress; #change this to the domain name, for example www.myblog.com
        access_log /var/log/wordpress.access_log;
        error_log /var/log/wordpress.error_log;

        location / {
          root /home/your-user-name/Sites/wordpress;
          index index.php index.html index.htm;

          # this serves static files that exist without running other rewrite tests
          if (-f $request_filename) {
              expires 30d;
              break;
          }

          # this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
          if (!-e $request_filename) {
              rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
          }
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index   index.php;
            fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/your-user-name/Sites/wordpress$fastcgi_script_name;
            include         fastcgi_params;
        }
}

Make sure you replace ‘your-user-name’ with your home folder user. Now we need to enable this vhost

sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/wordpress /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/wordpress

sudo nano /etc/hosts

Append the ‘wordpress’ into 127.0.0.1 line

127.0.0.1	localhost phpmyadmin wordpress

Now restart the nginx server

sudo service nginx start

Then after you configure your WordPress wp-config.php, WordPress is ready for raw-serve. Fire up your Firefox and type in http://wordpress. Enjoy!

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