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server {
	# we want to listen on port 80 on all IPs on our system - both IPv4 and IPv6
	listen [::]:80;
	# our primary server name is the first, aliases simply come after it. you can also include wildcards like *.example.com
	server_name blog.chrismeller.com new.chrismeller.com;

	# where are our site files stored?
	root /media/www/public_html/blog.chrismeller.com/public;

	# define our access and error logs for this vhost

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client_max_body_size 32m;

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upstream php {
	server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.socket;
}

# make sure index.php is first in all our vhosts
index index.php index.html index.htm;

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# we want to enable ssl session resumption to avoid
# having to start the handshake from scratch each page load
# so first we enable a shared cache, named SSL (creative!) that is 10mb large
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;

# save things in the cache for 3 minutes
# if you're not making a request at least every 3 minutes, this isn't going
# to accomplish anything anyway
ssl_session_timeout 3m;

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# most people include something like this. don't.
# check your default nginx.conf, it's already covered in a much better way.
#gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

# compress proxied requests too.
# it doesn't actually matter if the request is proxied, we still want it compressed.
gzip_proxied any;

# a pretty comprehensive list of content mime types that we want to compress
# there's a lot of repetition here because different applications might use different

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expires max;

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charset utf-8;

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[www]
pm.status_path = /status

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[www]
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.socket

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[www]
; at any time, there can be no more than 5 child processes
; if you know how much memory each process consumes regularly
; and how much free memory you have on your system, this is how
; you set a "hard limit" on the amount of memory php-fpm will be able to consume
pm.max_children = 5

; when php-fpm first starts, how many processes should
; it immediately generate to handle requests?
; when you restart php-fpm, there may be an influx of requests.