If you want to deploy lite-reader with nginx you should replace app/views/index.phtml with app/views/index.phtml.nginx
app/views/index.phtml
app/views/index.phtml.nginx
I deployed it in /lite-reader subdirectory and this is my configuation:
location /lite-reader/ { try_files $uri $uri/ /lite-reader/index.php; if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/lite-reader/(.+)$ /lite-reader/index.php?$1 last; } } error_page 404 /index.php; location /lite-reader/css/ { rewrite ^/lite-reader/.*/font/(.*\.(woff|eot|svg|ttf)) /lite-reader/public/stylesheets/font-awesome/font/$1 break; rewrite ^/lite-reader/css/(.*\.css) /lite-reader/public/stylesheets/$1 break; } location /lite-reader/javascript/ { rewrite ^/lite-reader/javascript/(.*\.js) /lite-reader/public/javascripts/$1 break; } location /lite-reader/images/ { rewrite ^/lite-reader/images/(.*\.(gif|png|jpg)) /lite-reader/public/images/$1 break; } error_page 404 /404.html; error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html; location = /50x.html { root /usr/share/nginx/www; } location ~ \.php$ { try_files $uri =404; fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock; fastcgi_index index.php; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; include fastcgi_params; }