I use the incredibly small high-performance web server Nginx to run this blog and some of my other projects. Again, the ADD developer in me likes trying out new technology and nginx is a great fit for me so far. I had to dig around a bit to find some rewrite rules that work for using WordPress (I'll share those if people are interested) but I got an email this morning from a fellow CakePHP user who couldn't find any configuration info on how to get it to work with Nginx. Well, I did some fooling around and I'm confident this set of rules will work. This assumes that you've gotten Nginx already up and running.

# CakePHP rewrite rules
location / {
     index index.php;
     if (!-e $request_filename) {
          rewrite ^/(.+)$ /webroot/$1 last;
          break;
     }
}

location /webroot/ {
     index index.php;
     if (!-e $request_filename) {
          rewrite ^(.+)$ index.php?url=$1 last;
          break;
     }
}

I am by no means an nginx expert, so if you have problems you are probably on your own. I hope this helps out other people wanting to run CakePHP on nginx.