nginx vhost example

nginx_vhost_example.conf

server {
	include  extra/proxy.conf;
	include  mime.types;
	
	listen  80;
	server_name  blog.DOMAIN.NAME;

	access_log  logs/LOGFILE-access.log;
	###error_log  logs/LOGFILE-error.log  debug;
	error_log  logs/LOGFILE-error.log;

	# Settings | General | WordPress address (URL)
	location /WP-CONTEXT {
		# physical location on server
		root  /PATH/TO/WP-DIR;
		index  index.php index.html index.htm;
		
		# remove virtual path, make it root-relative
		rewrite  ^/WP-CONTEXT(.*)$  $1;
	
		# this serves static files that exist without running other rewrite tests
		if (-f $request_filename) {
			expires 30d;
			break;
		}

		# addresses '/wp-admin/' and similar vein
		if (-f $request_filename/index.php) {
			# produces '...//index.php', acceptable loss
			rewrite  ^(.+)$  /WP-CONTEXT$1/index.php  last;
		}

		# this sends all non-existing file or directory requests to index.php
		if (!-e $request_filename) {
			rewrite  ^(.+)$  /WP-CONTEXT/index.php?q=$1  last;
		}
	}
	
	location ~ \.php$ {
		# remove virtual path, make it root-relative
		rewrite  ^/WP-CONTEXT(.*)$  $1;

		fastcgi_pass  fastcgi_cluster;
		fastcgi_index index.php;
		# physical location on server
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /PATH/TO/WP-DIR$fastcgi_script_name;
		include  fastcgi_params;
	}

	# Settings | General | Blog address (URL)
	location / {
		# WordPress handles this perfectly as-is
		fastcgi_pass  fastcgi_cluster;
		# physical location on server
		fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /PATH/TO/WP-DIR/index.php;
		include  fastcgi_params;
	}
}