Nginx + PHP-FPM + Drupal, sample configuration file for nginx and Drupal

default.conf

server {
        listen 80;

        server_name site.com www.site.com ;

        server_tokens off;

        aio off;
        directio off;
        sendfile on;
        gzip on;

        proxy_read_timeout 900s;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 900s;

        client_max_body_size 10M;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/site.com_access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/site.com_error.log;

        location ~ /\.git {
            deny all;
        }

        location ~ \.(engine|inc|info|install|make|module|profile|test|po|sh|.*sql|theme|tpl(\.php)?|xtmpl)$|^(\..*|Entries.*|Repository|Root|Tag|Template)$ {
          return 403;
        }


        location ~ ^/private/ {
          return 403;
        }

        location ~ ^/sites/default/files/private/ {
          return 403;
        }

        location ~ ^/sites/default/config/ {
          return 403;
        }
        location ~ /sites/default/files/.*\.php$ {
          return 403;
        }

        location / {
                root   /var/www/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs;
                index  index.php;
                try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrite;
                expires max;
        }

        location @rewrite {
                rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                root           /var/www/vhosts/site.com/httpdocs;
                #try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
                fastcgi_read_timeout 120;
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                include        fastcgi_params;
        }

}