If your owner:group and permissions settings are set correctly, WordPress should set permalinks automatically.

The default permalinks work fine, it is when set it to custom structure i.e. www.domain.com/contact

From the WordPress Dashboard, go to Settings => Permalinks. Do you have Custom Structure selected? What value have you set?

Yes custom structure is set to /

It's not enough to have: /. You need to use a Structure Tag | WordPress Codex.

ahh ok. So i just tried /%postname%/

But i still get a 404 not found ?

Have you tried restarting Nginx?

Can you pastebin your nginx virtualhost config?

Yup still doesnt work

@Kamal, Im not sure what that is?

Did you follow a guide on install wordpress? If so, can you link it?

I have the same problem here. Using the structure, say, example below

http://www.mathgol.com/pre-algebra/5-factors-and-divisibility-rules

/%category%/%post_id%-%postname%

sent me to 404 error.

I use Webuzo as my panel.