Setting up WordPress on Nginx
Just a quick post with a handy link for anyone looking to get WordPress running under Nginx (an awesome and much faster alternative to Apache!), one of the big differences between Nginx and Apache is the lack of .htaccess files and a different way of handling re-write rules which can cause headaches if you are used to using the “pretty” links in WordPress, or any other plugin that relies on Apache mod_rewrite rules (such as WPSuperCache).
Thankfully (and after many hours of googling and trying various less than ideal configs), I found the perfect setup guide in the most obvious place (and the last place I looked), possible – the WordPress Codex section, so for anyone struggling with Nginx and WordPress, or wanting to streamline their configuration, give this guide a read:
