Server portion for setting up a proxy to Lucee with rewrite to have index.cfm omitted for SES.

nginx.conf

http {

  ...

  server {
      listen 80;
      server_name  mysite.local www.mysite.local;
      root C:\websites\mysite\www;
      index index.cfm;

      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;
      }

      # 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 $1 which should help improve performance
      location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
          # 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";
      }
  
      location @rewrites {
          # Can put some of your own rewrite rules in here
          # for example rewrite ^/~(.*)/(.*)/? /users/$1/$2 last;
          rewrite ^/(.*)? /index.cfm/$1 last;
      }
  
      # Main Lucee proxy handler
      location ~ \.(cfm|cfml|cfc|jsp|cfr)(.*)$ {
          proxy_pass http://mysite.local:8080;
          proxy_read_timeout 100s;
          proxy_redirect off;
          proxy_set_header Host $host;
          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host;
          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Server $host;
          proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
          proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
      }
  }
  
}