Local development nginx config

nginx.conf

# Set another default user than root for security reasons
# local development - use yourself
user andy wheel;

# As a thumb rule: One per CPU. If you are serving a large amount
# of static files, which requires blocking disk reads, you may want
# to increase this from the number of cpu_cores available on your
# system.
#
# The maximum number of connections for Nginx is calculated by:
# max_clients = worker_processes * worker_connections
worker_processes 1;

# Maximum file descriptors that can be opened per process
# This should be > worker_connections
worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;

events {
  # When you need > 8000 * cpu_cores connections, you start optimizing
  # your OS, and this is probably the point at where you hire people
  # who are smarter than you, this is *a lot* of requests.
  worker_connections  8000;

  # This sets up some smart queueing for accept(2)'ing requests
  # Set it to "on" if you have > worker_processes
  accept_mutex off;

  # These settings are OS specific, by defualt Nginx uses select(2),
  # however, for a large number of requests epoll(2) and kqueue(2)
  # are generally faster than the default (select(2))
  # use epoll; # enable for Linux 2.6+
  # use kqueue; # enable for *BSD (FreeBSD, OS X, ..)
}

# Change these paths to somewhere that suits you!
error_log  logs/error.log;
pid        logs/nginx.pid;

http {
  # Set the mime-types via the mime.types external file
  include       mime.types;

  # And the fallback mime-type
  default_type  application/octet-stream;

  # Format for our log files
  log_format   main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  $status '
    '"$request" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

  # Click tracking!
  access_log   logs/access.log  main;

  # ~2 seconds is often enough for HTML/CSS, but connections in
  # Nginx are cheap, so generally it's safe to increase it
  keepalive_timeout  5;

  # You usually want to serve static files with Nginx
  sendfile on;

  tcp_nopush on; # off may be better for Comet/long-poll stuff
  tcp_nodelay off; # on may be better for Comet/long-poll stuff

  # Enable Gzip
  gzip  on;
  gzip_http_version 1.0;
  gzip_comp_level 2;
  gzip_min_length 1100;
  gzip_buffers     4 8k;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_types
    # text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule
    text/css
    text/javascript
    text/xml
    text/plain
    text/x-component
    application/javascript
    application/json
    application/xml
    application/rss+xml
    font/truetype
    font/opentype
    application/vnd.ms-fontobject
    image/svg+xml;

  gzip_static on;

  gzip_proxied        expired no-cache no-store private auth;
  gzip_disable        "MSIE [1-6]\.";
  gzip_vary           on;

    server {
      listen      80 default;
      server_name _;
      server_name_in_redirect off;

    # Strip www. prefix
      set $site $host;
      if ($site ~ "^(w{3}\.)?(.*)$") {
        set $site $2;
      }
    # Strip TLD prefix
      if ($site ~ "^(.*)(\.[a-z]{3})$") {
        set $site $1;
      }

    # Set webroot. Try multiples to support max variety of
    # serveable applications
      set $webroot /home/andy/www/apps/$site;
      if (-d $webroot/webroot) {
        set $webroot $webroot/webroot;
      }

    # Webroot for this domain could not be found 
      if (!-d $webroot) {
    set $webroot /home/andy/www/apps/;
      }

      access_log  /var/log/nginx/$site.access.log;
    # Error log does not support variables. Look in default error log
      rewrite_log on;
      root        $webroot;
      index       index.php index.html index.htm;

      #auth_basic            "Restricted";
      #auth_basic_user_file  /var/www/.htpasswd;

    # Not found this on disk? 
    # Feed to CakePHP for further processing!
      if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.+)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
        break;
      }

    # Pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server
    # listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
      location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors on; # to support 404s for PHP files not found
          include        fastcgi_params;
      }

          expires 1M;

    # Static files.
    # Set expire headers, Turn off access log
      location ~* \favicon.ico$ {
        access_log off;
        add_header Cache-Control public;
      }

      location ~ ^/(img|images|css|js|assets)/ {
        expires max;
        access_log off;
      }

      # Set expires max on static file types
      location ~* ^.+\.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|gz|svg|svgz|ttf|otf|woff|eot|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm)$ {
        expires max;
        access_log off;
      }

      # Static assets
      location ~* ^.+\.(manifest|appcache)$ {
        expires -1;
      }

      # opt-in to the future
      add_header "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=Edge,chrome=1";

      }
}