diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92cef3b..40cf024 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ So we'll just assume you already have them all running well.
 2. Create a user and database for palm-paste
 3. Take the 'palm-paste.sql' and import it to your database.
 4. Edit configuration settings in config/config.php
-5. Change the "RewriteBase" setting in ".htaccess" file to the root of your palm-paste installation
+5. (For apache users) Change the "RewriteBase" setting in ".htaccess" file to the root of your palm-paste installation
+5. (For nginx users) add the block from nginx_cfg.txt to your nginx server config, replace all occurrences of "paste" with the root of your palm-paste installation
 6. Done!
 
 * To ensure that pastes with an expiration set get cleaned up, define the cron key in the config and set up a cronjob, for example:
diff --git a/nginx_cfg.txt b/nginx_cfg.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..231161d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nginx_cfg.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# replace all occurrences of "paste" with the root of your palm-paste installation
+location /paste {
+    if ( $uri !~ ^/paste/(index\.php|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico|) ) {
+        rewrite ^/paste/u/(.*)$ /paste/index.php?user=$1? last;
+        rewrite ^/paste/(.*)$ /paste/index.php?page=$1? last;
+    }
+    if ( $uri ~* ^/paste/u/(css|js) ) {
+        rewrite ^/paste/u/(.*)$ /paste/u/$1? last;
+    }
+}