Many thanks for this great article. I've found it very helpful.

I've installed nginx + FastCGI + PHP in Debian Etch. My PHP application is WordPress. Just in case someone needs it,  a rewrite rule is necessary in nginx.conf if we want WordPress to work properly:

        location / {
            root   /var/www/blog.mydomain.com;
            index  index.php;
            if (-e $request_filename) {
              break;
            }
            rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
        }

 
More information:

• Nginx rewrite rules For WordPress
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