Installing Wordpress SVN with Nginx

Notes for installing Wordpress behind Nginx with friendly urls.

Checkout the latest version of Wordpress via subversion:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk/ .
cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php

Modify the database settings in wp-config.php to match your setup. Visit http://yourdomain.com to finish the setup, login as administrator, click settings, click permalinks, put a dot in “custom structure” and enter:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Add the following in the appropriate place inside your Nginx configuration file:

# wordpress fancy rewrites
if (-f $request_filename) {
	break;
}
if (-d $request_filename) {
	break;
}
rewrite ^(.+)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;

Make sure to make your uploads folder writable (assuming www-data is the nginx user):

mkdir your/wordpress/location/wp-content/uploads
chown www-data:www-data your/wordpress/location/wp-content/uploads