I'm trying to figure out why theres a desync between fastcgi and nginx here.

The URL has .php in it, so it should be sent to fastcgi. But I get a 404 thrown.

Does anyone see anything wrong here?

I get the infamous "No input file specified."

The only difference here is that i have ".php" and not ".php$" because some scripts I have are index.php/foo/bar - but I have tried both in this setup.

2008/05/26 14:47:05 [error] 14777#0: *16744547 "/home/mike/web/michaelshadle.com/category/respect/index.php" is not found (2: No such file or directory), client: 71.12.2.124, server: michaelshadle.com, request: "GET /category/respect/ HTTP/1.1", host: "michaelshadle.com", referrer: "http://michaelshadle.com/index.php"

fails: http://michaelshadle.com/category/respect/index.php

works: http://michaelshadle.com/category/respect/

server { listen 80; server_name michaelshadle.com; index index.php index.html; root /home/mike/web/michaelshadle.com/; include /etc/nginx/defaults.conf; include /etc/nginx/expires.conf; location ~ \.php { fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:11000; fastcgi_index index.php; } error_page 404 = /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri; }

and i do have this: fastcgi_param REDIRECT_STATUS 200;

...

It does seem that if I do this instead:

if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^(.+)$ /wordpress/index.php?q=$1 last; }

that it does hand off to fastcgi.

What needs to be done to have this work properly with Igor's suggested error_page version. Do I need to change WP to throw a header("HTTP 404 not found") or something?