#move next 3 lines to /etc/nginx/nginx.conf if you want to use fastcgi_cache across many sites fastcgi_cache_path /var/run/nginx-cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=WORDPRESS:500m inactive=60m; fastcgi_cache_key "$scheme$request_method$host$request_uri"; fastcgi_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header http_500; server { server_name example.com www.example.com; access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.access.log; error_log /var/log/nginx/example.com.error.log; root /var/www/example.com/htdocs; index index.php; set $no_cache 0; # POST requests and urls with a query string should always go to PHP if ($request_method = POST) { set $no_cache 1; } if ($query_string != "") { set $no_cache 1; } # Don't cache uris containing the following segments if ($request_uri ~* "(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|wp-.*.php|/feed/|index.php|wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php|sitemap(_index)?.xml|[a-z0-9_-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml)") { set $no_cache 1; } # Don't use the cache for logged in users or recent commenters if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wp-postpass|wordpress_no_cache|wordpress_logged_in") { set $no_cache 1; } location / { try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args; } location ~ .php$ { try_files $uri /index.php; include fastcgi_params; #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache; fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache; fastcgi_cache WORDPRESS; fastcgi_cache_valid 60m; } location ~ /purge(/.*) { fastcgi_cache_purge WORDPRESS "$scheme$request_method$host$1"; } location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf)$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; expires max; } location = /favicon.php { access_log off; log_not_found off; } location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; } location ~ /\. { deny all; access_log off; log_not_found off; } }