Example config of an nginx server (aka site)

nginx-server-example-config.conf

server {
        ## Your website name goes here.
        server_name example.com;
		listen 80;
        ## Your only path reference.
        root /home/my/example/path/to/site;
	error_log logs/example-error.log error;
	access_log logs/example-access.log;
        client_body_timeout 180;
        client_body_buffer_size 8K;
        client_header_buffer_size 1k;
        large_client_header_buffers 4 16k;        
        ## This should be in your http block and if it is, it's not needed here.
        index index.php;
 
        location = /favicon.ico {
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
        }
		
		
        location = /robots.txt {
                allow all;
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
        }
 
        location / {
                # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        }
  
        location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
                expires max;
                log_not_found off;
        }

	# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        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;
        }
}