Now you can create a centos based Nginx server easily with centmin mod.
What is Centmin Mod?
Centmin Mod is installer for centos, for those who are not good with linux and want to create there own server. Centmin Mod is written by George Liu (eva2000) with the addition of a shell menu based installer (shown on the right). Centmin Mod shell based menu allows you to do basic Nginx & PHP related management including upgrading or downgrading Nginx & PHP or setting up Nginx vhosts. It is a modified version of Centmin original script which auto installs Nginx server along with the following software:
Nginx 1.2.7
PHP 5.3.22 (php-fpm)
MariaDB 5.2.14 MySQL performance fork
PHP opcode cache: APC Cache 3.13, Xcache 2.01
Memcached Server 1.4.15 + Memcache 3.0.7 PHP Extension
Libmemcached 1.0.16 + Memcached 2.1.0 PHP Extension (Centmin Mod v1.2.3-eva2000.01+)
PHP Extensions: Suhosin, FFPMPEG (optional)
Siege Benchmark Tool (optional)
Ioping Random Disk I/O Benchmark Tool (optional)
Multi-threaded compression: pigz, pbzip2, lbzip2, plzip, p7zip (optional)
Python 2.7.3 (optional)
CSF Firewall (optional)
Head over to the website to find out more or if you want to try it out. http://centminmod.com/