My default server configuration for development.

nginx-project.conf

server {
        listen 80;
        listen 8888;

        server_name     localhost;
        index           index.php index.html index.htm;
        root            /path/to/root;

        autoindex on;

        client_max_body_size 1G;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                include                 snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
                fastcgi_read_timeout    600;
                fastcgi_pass            unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=1G
 post_max_size=1G";
        }
}