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I'm trying to setup a single website (domain) that contains both a front end Wordpress installation and a single directory Ruby on Rails application. I can get either one to work successfully on their own, but can't sort out the configuration that would let them coexist.

The following is my best attempt, but it results in all rails requests being picked up by the try_files block and redirected to "/". 

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.flickscanapp.com;
    root /var/www/flickscansite;
    index index.php;

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        include         fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_pass    127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index   index.php;
        fastcgi_param   SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/flickscansite$fastcgi_script_name;         
    }

    passenger_enabled on;        
    passenger_base_uri /rails;

}

An example request of the Rails app would be http://www.flickscan.com/rails/movies/upc/025192395925

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Can you give us some more information about your directory structure. It would be most common to see something like: location /blog {} AND location / {} To differentiate the two different apps. Also see, stackoverflow.com/questions/89504/… – Andrew Taylor Jan 4 '11 at 8:41
I'm basically trying to do the opposite of that SO question. I have /var/www/flickscansite (wordpress) and /var/www/flickscanapp (rails), in the /var/www/flickscansite I have a symlink "/rails" that points to the app directory (which works if I remove the php fastcgi config). I'm trying to use Wordpress as a lightweight CMS and then "embed" a rails app for use elsewhere. – Michael Buckbee Jan 4 '11 at 9:43
Andrew, I was able to sort out a solution by adding a location /rails {} section to the config. Good job finding that SO question, why don't you add it as an answer so I can upvote and accept your answer. Thanks. – Michael Buckbee Jan 4 '11 at 9:50
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