wordpress rewrite nginx

this is all you need to get the rewrite working in wordpress and nginx put this in your server config # wordpress rewrite # unless the request is for a valid file, send to wordpress index if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last; } full example server { listen 80; server_name site.com; access_log off; error_log off; root /var/www; index index.php index.html; location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html)$ { access_log off; expires max; } # wordpress rewrite # unless the request is for a valid file, send to wordpress index if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last; } # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on the php-fpm socket location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; } }