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Having spent hours digging into this issue with little help from the getshopped forums, I figured I should share this. I have a client who is using Nginx as web server and we're hosting a Wordpress site along with some Rails apps from the same server. Now, Wordpress itself plays perfectly fine with Nginx assuming you get the configuration right (see posts from Chris Kempson and the Nginx wiki for that). The biggest issue is really centered around permalinks, which a simple little plugin called Nginx Compatibility typically deals with quite nicely.

Unfortunately, WPEC doesn't play well with this setup (at least as of this writing using WP e-Commerce 3.8.7.2). If you try to use "pretty urls" of any kind, WPEC will attempt to append index.php to any of its AJAX calls (use Firebug console to see the POST) which results in a 404 error on those calls.

The only solution (or, a hacky compromise that I HATE, really) that I've been able to come up with so far is to disable Nginx Compatibility and set permalinks to something like the following:

/index.php/%category%/%postname%/

(Update the permalinks settings TWICE, and then flush the WPEC Theme cache)

You should be able to use any variety of permalink there, but the critical part is the /index.php/ slug. It's ugly. And as I said, I hate it. But it does keep WPEC from applying index.php to calls and suddenly you can update your cart, clear the cart, etc.