The nginx webserver is a fast and powerfull webserver, which usually used in production for loadbalancing.

Here is the describiton:
https://eksith.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/nginx-php-on-windows/

On Windows7 x64 a lib Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 has to be installed, for php-cgi.exe to work. Otherwise it throws an exception

The program can't start because MSVCR110.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the problem to fix this problem."

Both versions, 32 and x64 bit have to be installed for the php-cgi to work:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30679

Php in configured in php.ini. You can check where it should be located by checking the *Configuration File (php.ini) Path* among the output of

<?php
 phpinfo();
?>

Alternatively you can pass the php.ini explicitely to the service php-cgi which serves the cgi requests.

"c:\nginx\php\php-cgi.exe" -b 127.0.0.1:9000 -c c:\Windows\php.ini

This config redirects all requests with all methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) to the file index.php. The originally requested path may be retrieved from the $_SERVER variable. The GET / POST parameters are available as well.

#user  nobody;
worker_processes  1;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

		# this guy redirects any path to /api.json
		rewrite ^.*$ /index.php last;

        location / {
            root   html;
            index  index.php index.html index.htm;
			try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
        }

        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   html;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            root           html;
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
			set $path_info  $uri;
			fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
        }
    }

}

To retrieve the requested method do the following inside the index.php

<?php
	echo "hello \n";
		
	# requested method (PUT GET POST DELETE)
	echo getServerVariable('REQUEST_METHOD') . "\n";
	
	# REQUEST_URI as string
	$requesturi 		= getServerVariable('REQUEST_URI');
	echo requesturi . "\n";
	
	# REQUEST_URI as an array of path segments
	$requesturiArray = explode('/', $requesturi);
	echo implode($requesturiArray) . "\n";
	
	
	function getServerVariable($variable){
		if(isset($_SERVER[$variable])){
			$pmethod = $_SERVER[$variable];	
			return $pmethod;
		}else{
			return "$variable undefined";
		}
	}

?>

Generated config from reverse_proxy nginx