example.conf

server {
    listen 8080;
    server_name example.dev www.example.dev;
    
    location / {
        root /Users/Cobby/Sites/Example;
        
        if ($host = 'www.example.dev' ) {
            rewrite  ^/(.*)$  http://example.dev:8080/$1  permanent;
        }

        if ($request_filename !~ "\.(js|htc|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|less)$") {
          rewrite ^(.*) /index.php last;
        }
        
        # If the file exists as a static file serve it directly without
        # running all the other rewite tests on it
        if (-f $request_filename) {
          # expires max; 
          break; 
        }
      }
    
    
    # if the request starts with our frontcontroller, pass it on to fastcgi
    location ~ \.php($|/)
    {
        set  $script     $uri;
        set  $path_info  "";

        if ($uri ~ "^(.+\.php)(/.+)") {
          set  $script     $1;
          set  $path_info  $2;
        }
    
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /Users/Cobby/Sites/Example$script;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $path_info;
        include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }
    
}

nginx.conf

#user  Cobby;
worker_processes  3;

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

pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


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

    sendfile        on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;
      gzip_http_version 1.0;
      gzip_comp_level 2;
      gzip_min_length 1100;
      gzip_buffers     4 8k;
      gzip_proxied any;
      gzip_types
        # text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule
        text/css
        text/javascript
        text/xml
        text/plain
        text/x-component
        application/javascript
        application/json
        application/xml
        application/rss+xml
        font/truetype
        font/opentype
        application/vnd.ms-fontobject
        image/svg+xml;

      gzip_proxied        expired no-cache no-store private auth;
      gzip_disable        "MSIE [1-6]\.";
      gzip_vary           on;

    include /Users/Cobby/conf/nginx/*.conf;

}

serverctl.sh

#!/bin/bash
NGINX=`brew --prefix nginx`'/sbin/nginx'
PHPFPM=`brew --prefix php`'/sbin/php-fpm'
PHPFPMCONFIG=`brew --prefix php`'/etc/php-fpm.conf'
PIDPATH='/var/run'
 
if [ $1 = "start" ]; then
    echo "Starting php-fpm ..."
    sudo $PHPFPM -y $PHPFPMCONFIG
    echo "Starting nginx ..."
    sudo $NGINX
    echo "Done!"
elif [ $1 = "stop" ]; then
    echo "Stopping nginx ..."
    sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/nginx.pid`
    echo "Stopping php-fpm ..."
    sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/php-fpm.pid`
    echo "Done!"
elif [ $1 = "restart" ]; then
    echo "Stopping nginx ..."
    sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/nginx.pid`
    echo "Stopping php-fpm ..."
    sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/php-fpm.pid`
    echo "Starting php-fpm ..."
    sudo $PHPFPM
    echo "Starting nginx ..."
    sudo $NGINX
    echo "Done!"
elif [ $1 = "nginx" ]; then
    if [ $2 = "start" ]; then
        echo "Starting nginx ..."
        sudo $NGINX
    elif [ $2 = "stop" ]; then
        echo "Stopping nginx ..."
        sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/nginx.pid`
    elif [ $2 = "restart" ]; then
        echo "Stopping nginx ..."
        sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/nginx.pid`
        echo "Starting nginx ..."
        sudo $NGINX
    else
        echo "Valid commands for nginx: start | stop | restart"
    fi
elif [ $1 = "php" ] || [ $1 = "php-fpm" ]; then
    if [ $2 = "start" ]; then
        echo "Starting php-fpm ..."
        sudo $PHPFPM
    elif [ $2 = "stop" ]; then
        echo "Stopping php-fpm ..."
        sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/php-fpm.pid`
    elif [ $2 = "restart" ]; then
        echo "Stopping php-fpm ..."
        sudo kill `cat $PIDPATH/php-fpm.pid`
        echo "Starting php-fpm ..."
        sudo $PHPFPM
    else
        echo "Valid commands for php-fpm: start | stop | restart"
    fi
    echo "Valid commands: "
    echo "start | stop | restart"
    echo "----------------------------------------"
    echo "nginx (start | stop | restart)"
    echo "php | php-fpm (start | stop | restart)"
fi