medsha on "Permalinks Nginx not working - Help required"

Hi there people.

I recently switched over from Apache to Nginx and as most of you know... The rewriting structure is totally different and the commands in .htaccess become invalid.

I have been browsing the internetz for a while and I have stumbled upon many topics in this section of this website and many other how to... And somehow, I do not manage to get it working on my domain.

I have installed the "Nginx Compatibility" plugin and I have tried to do as instructed, but to no avail. I would prefer to do things without the plugin, but if it is necessary, then yea... :) I will not mind using it.

This is the data I use, can anyone, please help me out? Oh, I did manage to get the rewrite on and everything, but there was 1 huge problem and that is: When it's switched on, I cannot access the admin section... So there is something wrong in the code I use...

Please help me figuring out how to get it on. >:)

This is the default file that has no rewrite commands - I would prefer to use this without plugins.

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# You may add here your
# server {
#	...
# }
# statements for each of your virtual hosts

server {

	listen   80; ## listen for ipv4
	listen   [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6

	server_name  the website.net;
	server_name_in_redirect off;

fastcgi_buffer_size             32k;
fastcgi_buffers                 16 32k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size       64k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size    64k;

	location / {
		root   /var/www;
		index  index.html index.htm index.php;
	}

	# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
	#
	#error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
	#location = /50x.html {
	#	root   /var/www/nginx-default;
	#}

	# proxy the PHP scripts to Apache listening on 127.0.0.1:80
	#
	#location ~ \.php$ {
		#proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1;
	#}

	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
	#

	location ~ \.php$ {
		root 		/var/www;
		include 	/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
		fastcgi_pass  	127.0.0.1:9000;
		fastcgi_index 	index.php;
		try_files $uri @wordpress;

		fastcgi_param  	SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/$fastcgi_script_name;
	}

	location /phpmyadmin {
               root /usr/share/;
               index index.php index.html index.htm;
               location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
                       try_files $uri =404;
                       root /usr/share/;
                       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                       fastcgi_index index.php;
                       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                       include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
               }
               location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
                       root /usr/share/;
               }
        }
        location /phpMyAdmin {
               rewrite ^/* /phpmyadmin last;
        }

	# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
	# concurs with nginx's one
	#
	#location ~ /\.ht {
	#	deny  all;
	#}
}

What I also need to say is, I really hate the default part that is added in the permalinks section which is: index.php - This led to 404 errors, and is the main reason why I downloaded nginx compatibilty plugin. If there is a simple code that can be added to the provided file to remove the index.php part from the link, I will be really thankful to you. ;)

I hope that I can receive the help here. :)

These are the suggestions by the plugin creator which I don't manage to implement in my file: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nginx-compatibility/other_notes/

I run Nginx. 0.7.67