Nginx Config for Drupal

nginx.debian.vm

server {
    listen   80;
    server_name  debian.vm;
    root /var/www/debian.vm/drupal;
    access_log /var/www/debian.vm/logs/access.log;
    error_log /var/www/debian.vm/logs/error.log;

    index  index.html index.htm index.php;

# DRUPAL STUFF

   client_max_body_size 16M;

    location / {
     error_page 404 index.php;
     error_page 403 /403.html;

      # the main drupal app
      if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
      }
    }

    # serve static files directly
    location ~* ^.+\.(wsf|xml|pdf|doc|jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
        #rewrite ^/favicon.ico$ /sites/drupal-6.x/themes/mytheme/favicon.ico break;
        access_log        off;
        expires           30d;
    }

    # imagecache needs to have php read any files that it's planning to manipulate
    location ^~ /sites/all/files/imagecache/ {
       index  index.php index.html;
       # assume a clean URL is requested, and rewrite to index.php
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite  ^/(.*)$  /index.php?q=$1  last;
            break;
        }
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /\.ht {
         deny  all;
    }

# END DRUPAL STUFF

#  php file handling
 location ~ \.php$ {
   fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
   fastcgi_index  index.php;

   include fastcgi_params;
   fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
   fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $http_host;
   fastcgi_ignore_client_abort on;
 }

  gzip on;
  gzip_comp_level 2;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_min_length  1000;
  gzip_disable     "MSIE [1-6]\."
  gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

}