NginX config for Homebrew based NginX, MariaDB, PHP development stack

nginx.conf

# user setting for this machine
user <your_username> staff;

# you must set worker processes based on your CPU cores, nginx does not benefit from setting more than that
worker_processes auto;

# only log critical errors
error_log /opt/homebrew/var/log/nginx/error.log crit;

events {
    # determines how much clients will be served per worker
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;
    server_names_hash_bucket_size 512;
    client_max_body_size 256M;

    # copies data between one FD and other from within the kernel
    # faster than read() + write()
    sendfile on;

    # send headers in one piece, it is better than sending them one by one
    tcp_nopush on;

    # reduce the data that needs to be sent over network -- for testing environment
    gzip on;
    # gzip_static on;
    gzip_min_length 10240;
    gzip_comp_level 1;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_disable msie6;
    gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
    gzip_types
        # text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule
        text/css
        text/javascript
        text/xml
        text/plain
        text/x-component
        application/javascript
        application/x-javascript
        application/json
        application/xml
        application/rss+xml
        application/atom+xml
        font/truetype
        font/opentype
        application/vnd.ms-fontobject
        image/svg+xml;

    # localhost server http
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name localhost;

        charset utf-8;

        root /Users/<your_username>/Development/Sites;
        index index.php kick.php index.html index.htm;

        # redirect http to https
        location / {
            return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
        }
    }

    # localhost server https
    server {
        listen 443 ssl;
        listen [::]:443 ssl;

        http2 on;

        ssl_certificate      /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/certs/localhost.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key  /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/certs/localhost-key.pem;
        ssl_ciphers          HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    
        server_name localhost;

        root /Users/<your_username>/Development/Sites;
        index index.php kick.php index.html index.htm;

        charset utf-8;

        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

        location / {
            autoindex on;
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

            proxy_buffer_size 128k;
            proxy_buffers 4 256k;
            proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }    
    }

    # wildcard host *.dev.test server http
    server {
        listen 80;
        server_name ~^(?<subdomain>[^.]+).dev.test;

        charset utf-8;

        root /Users/<your_username>/Development/Sites/$1;
        index index.php kick.php index.html index.htm;

        # Redirect to ssl
        location / {
            return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
        }
    }

    # wildcard host *.dev.test server https
    server {
        listen 443 ssl;
        listen [::]:443 ssl;

        http2 on;

        ssl_certificate      /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/certs/_wildcard.dev.test.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key  /opt/homebrew/etc/nginx/certs/_wildcard.dev.test-key.pem;
        ssl_ciphers          HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
    
        server_name ~^(?<subdomain>[^.]+).dev.test;

        root /Users/<your_username>/Development/Sites/$subdomain;
        index index.php kick.php index.html index.htm;

        charset utf-8;

        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";

        location / {
            autoindex on;
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;

            proxy_buffer_size 128k;
            proxy_buffers 4 256k;
            proxy_busy_buffers_size 256k;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }    
    }

    include servers/*;
}