nginx.conf

user {{UNIX_USER}};
worker_processes  2;

error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;

events {
    worker_connections  4096;
    ## Accept as many connections as possible.
    multi_accept on;
}

http {

    map $uri $basedir {
        default {{WEB_DIR}};
    }

    ## MIME types.
    include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    ## FastCGI.
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi.conf;

    ## Default log and error files.
    access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

    ## Use sendfile() syscall to speed up I/O operations and speed up
    ## static file serving.
    ## Does not work properly on some virtual machines.
    #sendfile on;

    ## Timeouts.
    client_body_timeout 120;
    client_header_timeout 120;
    keepalive_timeout 10 10;
    send_timeout 120;

    ## Reset lingering timed out connections. Deflect DDoS.
    reset_timedout_connection on;

    ## Body size.
    client_max_body_size 30m;

    ## TCP options.
    tcp_nodelay on;
    ## Optimization of socket handling when using sendfile.
    tcp_nopush on;

    ## Compression.
    gzip on;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_comp_level 1;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_min_length 10;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/x-icon application/vnd.ms-fontobject font/opentype application/x-font-ttf;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_proxied any; # Compression for all requests.
    ## No need for regexps. See
    ## http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpGzipModule#gzip_disable
    gzip_disable "msie6";

    ## For the filefield_nginx_progress module to work. From the
    ## README. Reserve 1MB under the name 'uploads' to track uploads.
    upload_progress uploads 1m;

    ## Include the upstream servers for PHP FastCGI handling config.
    ## This one uses the FCGI process listening on TCP sockets.
    include upstream_php.conf;

    ## Include all vhosts.
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}