example.conf

server {
        # Redirect any subdomain to the root domain
        # to be captured by next server block
        server_name *.example.com;
        return 301 $scheme://example.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    root /var/www;
    index index.html index.htm;
 
    # Make site accessible from http://example.com
    server_name example.com
 
    access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com-access.log;
    error_log  /var/log/nginx/example.com-error.log error;
 
    charset utf-8;
 
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }
 
    # Don't log favicon.ico nor robots.txt attempts
    location = /favicon.ico { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { log_not_found off; access_log off; }
 
    error_page 404 /error404.html
 
    # Deny .htaccess file access
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}