Simple Nginx configuration for Drupal

drupal7

# file templates/drupal7

charset utf-8;
error_page 404 = @drupal;
error_page 405 = @drupal;
index index.html index.php;

location = /favicon.ico {
  log_not_found off;
  access_log off;
}

location = /robots.txt {
  allow all;
  log_not_found off;
  access_log off;
}

location ^~ /cache/ {
  access_log off;
  return 404;
}

location ~* \.(htaccess|inc|engine|install|info|module|sh|sql|theme|tpl\.php)$ {
 access_log off;
 return 404;
}

location ~ ^/(CHANGELOG\.txt|COPYRIGHT\.txt|INSTALL\.txt|INSTALL\.mysql\.txt|INSTALL\.pgsql\.txt|INSTALL\.sqlite\.txt|LICENSE\.txt|MAINTAINERS\.txt|README\.txt|UPGRADE\.txt) {
  access_log off;   
  return 404;
}

location / {
  expires max;
  try_files $uri @drupal;
}

location @drupal {
  rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php;
}

location ~ \.php$ {
  error_page 418 = @drupal;
  recursive_error_pages on;
  fastcgi_split_path_info ^[^=](.+\.php)(/.+)$;  
  
  if ( $uri = /index.php ) {
    # not sure this conditional works, will have to check the debug logs
    break;
  }
 
  if ( !-e $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
    return 418;
  }
  
  expires 1m;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  include        fastcgi_params;
  fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

nginx drupal default

# file sites-enabled/drupal7
server {
 server_name mydomain.fr;
 root /var/www/mydomain;

 include templates/drupal7;
}

www.conf

# file /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf

# Search and Set listen value to sock
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock