Once again, thanks Igor. Removed the try_files and now I am getting: Status: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden Server: nginx/1.2.2 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:58:09 GMT Content-Type: text/html Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: close X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.5 Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,228909,228982#msg-228982