wordpress-nginx.conf

user www-data;
worker_processes auto;
worker_rlimit_nofile 100000;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

events {
	worker_connections 10240;
	# multi_accept on;
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on;
	tcp_nodelay on;
	keepalive_timeout 30;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;
	server_tokens off;

	# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

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

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	gzip on;
	gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

	gzip_vary on;
	gzip_proxied any;
	gzip_comp_level 6;
	gzip_buffers 16 8k;
	gzip_http_version 1.1;
	gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

permissions.sh shell script for WordPress installs to set file and directory permissions and ownership. Change the path to fit your install. Make sure to 'chmod 700 permissions.sh' before using './permissions.sh' to run it.

file permissions.sh :

!/bin/bash

find /var/www/public -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
find /var/www/public -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/public

https://gist.github.com/chuckreynolds/11250053