Configurations for NGINX

hosts

# Listen on port

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name my.domain.com;
  
  location ~ ^/(assets)/ {
      root /path/to/project/public;
      # gzip_static on;
      # expires max;
      # add_header Cache-Control public;
      # access_log /dev/null;
  }
  
  location / {
      proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      proxy_set_header   Host      $http_host;
      proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:3000;
  }
}

# For PHPMyadmin

server {
...

  location /phpmyadmin {
    root /usr/share/;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;
    location ~ ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.php)$ {
      try_files $uri =404;
      root /usr/share/;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~* ^/phpmyadmin/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
      root /usr/share/;
    }
  }

...
}

# Some app with PHP FPM

server{
  listen 80;
  server_name mydomain.com;
  
  location / {
    root /path/to/app;
    index index.php index.htm index.html;

    location ~ ^(.+\.php)$ {
      try_files $uri =404;
      root /path/to/app/;
      fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }
  }
}

# Some app with SSL

server {
  listen                  443;
  server_name             mydomain.com;
  ssl                     on;
  ssl_certificate         /etc/ssl/certs/cert.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key     /etc/ssl/private/key.key;
  rewrite ^/$   /share;

  location / {
    root    /path/to/the/application;
    proxy_pass  https://localhost:8443;

    proxy_set_header  X-Real-IP   $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header  host      $host;
    proxy_set_header  X-Forwarded-Server  $host;
  }
}

# For an Unicorn or Gunicorn application 

upstream application {
  server unix:/home/appmanager/application/tmp/application.sock;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name *.application.com;
  root /home/appmanager/application/public;

  location / {
    try_files $uri @application;
  }

  location @application {
    proxy_pass http://application;
    proxy_redirect off;
    proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  }
}