Sample Nginx configuration

gistfile1.txt

server {
 listen 80;
 server_name my.site.com;
 root /var/www/my.site.com;
 location / {
  # Rewrite rules and other criterias can go here
  # Remember to avoid using if() where possible (http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil)
  try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
 }
 location @rewrites {
  # Can put some of your own rewrite rules in here
  # for example rewrite ^/~(.*)/(.*)/? /users/$1/$2 last;
  rewrite ^/images/(.*)?  http://images.site.com/$1 permanent;
  rewrite ^/(.*)? /index.cfm/$1 last;
  rewrite ^ /index.cfm last;
 }
 # This block will catch static file requests, such as images, css, js
 # The ?: prefix is a 'non-capturing' mark, meaning we do not require
 # the pattern to be captured into $1 which should help improve performance
 location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js)$ {
  # Some basic cache-control for static files to be sent to the browser
  expires max;
  add_header Pragma public;
  add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
 }
 # We can include our basic configs here, as you can see its much easier
 # than pasting out the entire sets of location block each time we add a vhost
 include drop.conf;
 # Main Railo proxy handler
 location ~ \.(cfm|cfml|cfc|jsp|cfr)(.*)$ {
  proxy_redirect off;
  proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $http_host;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $http_host;
  proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
  proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  proxy_pass http://localhost:8888;
 }
}