RoR app with Wordpress on Nginx

server.js

$ cd /var/www 
$ ll
drwxr-xr-x 5 root    root       4096 Mar  7 12:52 wp

Installing php5-fpm
sudo apt-get install php5-fpm

php5-fpm configuration.Open up www.conf:
sudo nano /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

Find the line, listen = 127.0.0.1:9000, and change the 127.0.0.1:9000 to /var/run/php5-fpm.sock and change with
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock

Restart php-fpm:
sudo service php5-fpm restart


www contains wordpress folder which is renamed as wp
Edit wp-config.php file in wp folder to add database details.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name localhost;
  root /home/kalpesh/rails_demo/public;
  passenger_enabled on;
  rails_env development;
 
  location /wp {
    root   /var/www;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
 
    location ~ \.php$ {
     #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
     # With php5-fpm:
     fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
     fastcgi_index index.php;
     include fastcgi_params;
     fastcgi_read_timeout 300;
     client_max_body_size 5M;
    }
 
  }
}

nginx log files
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;


solving gateway timeout issue in php during wordpress setup
sudo nanno /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
max_execution_time = 300 # Changed from 30 to 300

sudo service nginx restart

add at he bottom of wp-config.php
to allow upload and extraction of themes
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');