The Life and Times of Michael Shadle

OLD:

error_page 404 = /wordpress/index.php?q=$request_uri;

or:

if (!-e $request_filename) {
   rewrite ^/(.*) /wordpress/index.php?uri=$request_uri last;
}

NEW:

try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri&$args;

Why make life more complicated if you don't need to?

Also thanks to Igor's patch you can have multiple of these, i.e.:

location /wordpress {
   try_files $uri $uri/ /wordpress/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
}

location /anotherapp {
   try_files $uri $uri/ /anotherapp/controllerfile.php?q=$uri&$args;
}

etc.

This is good, as Drupal, WordPress and many other packages (including anything I develop anymore) use the Front Controller pattern of development, which makes deploying applications a lot simpler and helps support a consistent framework across the entire application.

NOTE: Updated on 1/5/10 to include the $args 🙂