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This tutorial is very simple, anyone with basic understanding of linux should be able to get it up and running.
(this blog and everything else on hamsworld.net is running on this configuration)

Side note: If you don’t want to compile nginx and/or want a more stable solution consider gunicorn.

• Download nginx and mod_wsgi from the web and extract them

wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-0.8.53.tar.gz
whet http://bitbucket.org/lifeeth/mod_wsgi/get/6975f0ec7eeb.gz
tar xvzf nginx-0.8.53.tar.gz 6975f0ec7eeb.gz

• Make sure there are folders “nginx-0.8.53″ and “mod_wsgi”
• Install nginx (you will need gcc, libssl-dev and libpcre3-dev packages installed, you can just apt-get install them)

cd nginx-0.8.53
./configure --sbin-path=/usr/sbin --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --add-module=../mod_wsgi/ --with-debug
make
sudo make install
cd ..

• Install mod_wsgi

cd mod_wsgi
sudo python setup.py install --sbin-path=/usr/sbin --conf-path=/etc/nginx
cd ..

• Configure nginx

Go to /etc/nginx/ and create a directory sites or something like that for per virtual server configs and then edit your nginx.conf to something like that:

user    www-data;
worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    #gzip  on;

    wsgi_python_optimize 0;
    #wsgi_python_executable /usr/bin/python;
    #wsgi_python_home /usr/;
    wsgi_enable_subinterpreters on;

    include /etc/nginx/sites/*;
}

• If you need php, follow this few simple steps to get php-cgi up and running (skip “Install nginx” and “test”): http://davidwinter.me/articles/2009/06/13/php-and-nginx-the-easy-way/
• Now all that is left are per-site configurations. For every site create a file in /etc/nginx/sites/ and paste something like that in it:

Django or other wsgi (you’ll need django.wsgi file from here http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/howto/deployment/modwsgi/):

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.example.com; #change this

    location /media/ {
        root   /path/to/django/project/; #change this; without media at the end
    }

    location / {
        wsgi_pass /path/to/django/project/django.wsgi; #change this

        include wsgi_vars;

        wsgi_pass_authorization off;
        wsgi_script_reloading on;
        wsgi_use_main_interpreter on;
    }

}

WordPress:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.example.com; #change this
    root /path/to/wordpress/; #change this
    index index.php;

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

    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

}

Other PHP:
Same as wordpress, just delete the try_files if you don’t want it (it redirects everything that doesn’t exist to index).