Tecadmin published a tutorial about configuring Nginx for WordPress permalinks.
How to Configure Nginx for WordPress Permalinks
WordPress is the popular content management system (CMS) written in PHP. MySQL is the backend database server for WordPress. It maintains its URLs with permalink is the full URL of any post, page or any other content on the website. Apache web server uses .htaccess to manage permalinks for WordPress.
How to Configure Nginx for WordPress Permalinks