NGINX Template to handle php throught PHP-FPM over /var/run/sock/php.sock

site.nginx.conf

server {

    listen   80;
    server_name myawesomesite.com www.myawesomesite.com;

    client_max_body_size 4G;

    root /home/mysite/public_html;
    access_log /home/mysite/logs/nginx-access.log;
    error_log /home/mysite/logs/nginx-error.log;

    index index.php;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/sock/php.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 600;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

}

Will be needed to be used with PHP-FPM module. The scripts does the following:

• Listen on port 80;
• bind to myawesomesite.com and www.myawesomesite.com;
• Will set a root;
• At location "/" nginx will try to access file, if has any, if does not encounter, will try to load resource putting a bar on end of string. If it not have success, load index.php;
• The magic happens on ~ .php. It means script will try to pass to php-fpm process any requests. If proxy fails raise an 404 error.