After reading the beginner's guide (which is pretty good and cover most of the simple stuff), I suggest reading http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls http://wiki.nginx

After reading the beginner's guide (which is pretty good and cover most of the simple stuff), I suggest reading http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls and http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil to see some "best practices" (which usually aren't followed in many tutorials out there, even on nginx's own wiki).