/etc/nginx/common/nginx.conf basic NGINX location rules common to all website platforms. Should be included in all virtual site configurations.

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# @(#)$Id$
#title          :/etc/nginx/common/nginx.conf
#description    :ftmon cluster nginx common config for all sites.
#author         :Danny W Sheehan
#date           :July 2014
#website        :ftmon.org
#
# This is a work in progress. A lot of trial and error and man hours have
# gone into this configuration. I have referenced sources that have been
# helpful.
#
# ftmon cluster is tuned for KVM with 1G of memory and 1 cpu.
#
# Final configuration will be available at https://github.com/ftmon as
# opensource.
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# Basic rules common to all website platforms - Wordpress, forums etc.

# show "not found" errors rather than forbidden errors to confuse potential
# threats by hiding our privite bits.
error_page 403 =404;

# support for favicon. Return 1x1 transparent GIF
# my little trick for having multiple favicons for multisites.
location ~* favicon.ico$ {
  pagespeed off;
  access_log off;
  log_not_found off;
  expires max;
  try_files /images/$host.ico /images/$host.png $uri /favicon.ico /favicon.png / @empty;
}


# return empty 1x1 transparent GIF
location @empty {
  access_log off;
  pagespeed off;
  log_not_found off;
  expires max;
  empty_gif;
}

# don't log every time this file is accessed.
location = /robots.txt {
  access_log off;
  pagespeed off;
  log_not_found off;
  try_files /robots.txt @robots;
}

# sick of creating robot files? - use this.
location @robots {
  add_header Content-Type text/plain;
  return 200 "User-agent: *\nAllow: /\n";
}

# Add annoying image names that people forget to include in their
# plugins, themes.
location ~* (accept.png|missing-image.png)$ {
  pagespeed off;
  access_log off;
  log_not_found off;
  expires max;
  try_files $uri @empty;
}


# Ask browser to cache Static Files for as long as possible.
# bypass any backend processing by letting nginx service them if they exit.
location ~* \.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|css|rss|atom|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|webp)$ {
  try_files $uri =404;
  access_log off;
  log_not_found off;
  expires max;
}