Nginx virtual host configuration for WordPress

wordpress.nginxconf

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.example.com;
    rewrite ^ $scheme://example.com$request_uri?;
}

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name example.com;
    
    root /path/to/www;
    index index.php;
    charset UTF-8;
    
    ##
    # gzip config
    ##
    
    gzip on;
    gzip_static on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";
    gzip_types text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/richtext image/svg+xml text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/x-icon;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_proxied any;
    
    ##
    # Server log config
    ##
    
    access_log off;
    error_log /path/to/logs/error.log warn;
    
    ##
    # FastCGI cache exceptions
    ##
    
    set $no_cache   0;
    set $cache_uri  $request_uri;
    
    if ($request_method = POST) {
        set $cache_uri  "null cache";
        set $no_cache   1;
    }

    if ($query_string != "") {
        set $cache_uri  "null cache";
        set $no_cache   1;
    }

    if ($request_uri ~* "(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|wp-.*.php|/feed/|index.php|wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php|sitemap(_index)?.xml|[a-z0-9_-]+-sitemap([0-9]+)?.xml)") {
        set $cache_uri  "null cache";
        set $no_cache   1;
    }

    if ($http_cookie ~* "comment_author|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wp-postpass|wordpress_logged_in") {
        set $cache_uri  "null cache";
        set $no_cache   1;
    }
    
    ##
    # Browser cache config
    ##
    
    location ~ \.(css|htc|js|js2|js3|js4)$ {
        expires max;
        add_header Pragma "public";
        add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    }
    
    location ~ \.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|svg|svgz|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$ {
        expires 3600s;
        add_header Pragma "public";
        add_header Cache-Control "max-age=3600, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    }
    
    location ~ \.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|eot|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|json|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|mpp|otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|ttf|ttc|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ {
        expires max;
        add_header Pragma "public";
        add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
        log_not_found off;
    }
    
    ##
    # Favicon
    ##
    
    location = /favicon.ico {
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }
    
    ##
    # robots.txt
    ##
    
    location = /robots.txt {
        allow all;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
    }
    
    ##
    # Deny access to hidden files
    ##
    
    location ~ /\. {
        deny all;
    }
    
    ##
    # Deny access to uploaded PHP files
    ##
    
    location ~* /(?:uploads|files)/.*\.php$ {
    	deny all;
    }
    
    ##
    # Deny access to WordPress include-only files
    ##
    
    location ~ ^/wp-admin/includes/ {
        deny all;
    }
    location ~ ^/wp-includes/[^/]+\.php$ {
        deny all;
    }
    location ~ ^/wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/.+\.php {
        deny all;
    }
    location ~ ^/wp-includes/theme-compat/ {
        deny all;
    }
    
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri =404;

        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        # fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
        # fastcgi_keep_conn on;
        # fastcgi_read_timeout 300;

        # fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

        ##
        # FastCGI cache config
        ##

        # fastcgi_cache_path /var/cache/nginx levels=1:2 keys_zone=WORDPRESS:10m max_size=1000m inactive=60m;
        # fastcgi_cache_key $scheme$host$request_uri$request_method;
        # fastcgi_cache_use_stale updating error timeout invalid_header http_500;
        fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache;
        fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache;
        fastcgi_cache WORDPRESS;
        fastcgi_cache_valid any 30m;
    }
}