Howdy.

So I am trying to get permalinks to work with Wordpress. I have read a few articles/blog posts but still no luck. The permalink structure I am trying to use is:

http://mydomain.com/wp/index.php/2012/02/sample-post/

Here is the configuration block that I am currently using that is important:

# permalinks currently not working with this
location ~ \.php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
fastcgi_index index.php;

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

# tried this as well, but still doesn't work
#
#if (!-e $request_filename) {
# rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
#}

fastcgi_pass php1.local.mydomain.com:9000;
}