#rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
#yum update
#yum install nginx php-cli php make automake gcc gcc-c++ spawn-fcgi wget

Method2: 

#wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/epel/5/x86_64/nginx-0.8.53-1.el5.x86_64.rpm
#yum install GeoIP
#yum install gd 
#yum install libxslt
#rpm -ivh nginx-0.8.53-1.el5.x86_64.rpm

Set nginx to startup at boot:

#chkconfig --add nginx
#chkconfig --level 35 nginx on
#service nginx start

Install php extensions:

#yum install lighttpd-fastcgi php-cli php-mysql php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-odbc \
php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc php-eaccelerator php-magickwand php-magpierss \
php-mapserver php-mbstring php-mcrypt php-mhash php-mssql php-shout php-snmp \
php-soap php-tidy

Now let's configure a vhost:




#mkdir -p /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html
#mkdir /srv/www/www.example.com/logs
#chown -R nginx:nginx /srv/www/www.example.com

#mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-available
#mkdir /etc/nginx/sites-enabled

Add the following lines to your /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file, immediately after the line for "include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf":

# Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
#include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
# Load virtual host configuration files.
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

Create file: /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com:

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name www.example.com example.com;
    access_log /srv/www/www.example.com/logs/access.log;
    error_log /srv/www/www.example.com/logs/error.log;
   
#    location / {
#        root   /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html;
#        index  index.html index.htm index.php;
#    }
location / {
        root   /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html;
        index  index.html index.htm index.php;
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;
         }
        }
   
    location ~ \.php$ {
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass  127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  /srv/www/www.example.com/public_html$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}
#cd /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
#ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/www.example.com
#service nginx restart

#cd /opt
#wget https://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/php-fastcgi/reference/php-fastcgi-rpm.sh
#mv php-fastcgi-rpm.sh /usr/bin/php-fastcgi
#chmod +x /usr/bin/php-fastcgi
#wget https://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/php-fastcgi/reference/php-fastcgi-init-rpm.sh
#mv php-fastcgi-init-rpm.sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/php-fastcgi
#chmod +x /etc/rc.d/init.d/php-fastcgi
#chkconfig --add php-fastcgi
#chkconfig php-fastcgi on

Add this in /etc/php.ini at the end of file:

cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
#/etc/init.d/php-fastcgi start

Enjoy

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