That being said, the one thing that really annoyed me was in with the permalinks stucture, it seemed like there was no way to get the index.html out of the URI, at least not with playing around with various config file i'm still not comfortable using.
I was lucky though and found this WP Plugin which totally fixed that issue called "nginx Compatibility" in the plugins database. It works amazingly well and now my new permalinks looks just like my old Apache ones.

I'm still really worried about moving my Joomla site over as it already has lots of SEF issues

I'm sure I will be making reference to your site many more times over the next few days and I'll make sure to send you a donation because you saved me hours, if not day of frustration

there's a dollar sign up there somewhere (er, script-wrapped!) for a donations link, but keep you dosh and sign up for vpsBible.com instead, which is about to launch and will have the VPS Bible ported there, along with a growing VPS knowledge base.

no video on this tutorial though .. I do have plans to make more though.

Permissions errors? Can't Install WP Plugins?

yes, to confirm, for WP (or any platform sat on Nginx that has internal facilities like plugin_installs/core_updates/file_uploads), do this to make it easy and stop any FTP detail requests:-

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /home/public_html/blogOrWhatever.com/public

later on, if you try to SCP but get a permissions error, do:-

sudo chown -R yourUsername:www-data /home/public_html/blogOrWhatever.com/public

if you do SCP a lot, you can shortcut the chown procedures in bashrc .. search for bashrc on this site for details about command line shortcuts.

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.. the Bible has fallen down here. Sorry for any confusion, will add detailed post and properly add this info in the WP section of the Bible next week.

Only slight issue I have is the same question as thanh had but I will rephrase it as I think you missed what he wanted

How do you enable the the backend of wordpress to allow installing plugins without asking for FTP login/password?

Currently after followung your turorial character by character I am asked for a FTP login when trying to install or deleted plugins and no matter what I put I can't use this but ideally I don't want to have to use this FTP login evenif it does work.

Thanks again

(Will be revising all VPS Bible posts shortly, and ongoing, to add such ideas as well as keep up with any procedural changes due to new software etc.)

Could I suggest at the end of this one you mention the way to check that the cache is working is to view the last line of your pages' source code and see the created time. Then refresh the page and check that it's served the prior page.

Cheers,
Moses.

That subversion method is covered in WordPress Setup & Updates from the Command Line. Installing subversion is covered in PHP5, MySQL, Xcache, Subversion (for Platforms like WordPress).

.. i never use that ftp login/pass method. i guess some folks like it.