Simple Magento 2 nginx configuration (/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/example.com.conf).

example.com.conf

server {
    listen 80;
    
    server_name local.example.com;
    
    
    ssl_session_cache builtin:1000 shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout  10m;
    ssl_protocols TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
    ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GCM-SHA256:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128:AES256:AES:DES-CBC3-SHA:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!RC4:!MD5:!PSK';
    ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
    ssl_stapling on;
    ssl_stapling_verify on;
    client_max_body_size 50m;
    root /home/cloudpanel/htdocs/local.example.com;

    access_log /home/cloudpanel/logs/local.example.com/nginx/access.log;
    error_log /home/cloudpanel/logs/local.example.com/nginx/error.log;

    location ~ (^/(app/)|/\.+) {
      deny all;
    }

    location ~ (/(/|pkginfo/|var/|report/config.xml)|/\.+) {
      deny all;
    }

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

    location /pub/static/ {
      location ~ ^/pub/static/version {
        rewrite ^/pub/static/(version\d*/)?(.*)$ /pub/static/$2 last;
      }
      location ~* \.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|js|css|swf|eot|ttf|otf|woff|woff2|html|xml)$ {
        add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
        expires max;
        access_log off;
        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^/pub/static/(version\d*/)?(.*)$ /pub/static.php?resource=$2 last;
            rewrite ^/pub/static/(.*)$ /pub/static.php?resource=$1 last;
        }
      }
    }

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location ~ \.php$ {
       include fastcgi_params;
       fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
       fastcgi_index index.php;
       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
       try_files $uri =404;
       fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
       fastcgi_read_timeout 3600;
       fastcgi_send_timeout 3600;
       fastcgi_param HTTPS $fastcgi_https;
       fastcgi_param SERVER_PORT 80;
       fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "
         error_log=/home/cloudpanel/logs/local.example.com/php/error.log;
         memory_limit=768M;
         max_execution_time=360;";
       #fastcgi_param MAGE_MODE "production";
    }

    gzip                on;
    gzip_disable        "msie6";
    gzip_vary           on;
    gzip_proxied        any;
    gzip_comp_level     8;
    gzip_buffers        16 8k;
    gzip_http_version   1.1;
    gzip_types          text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript image/png image/gif image/jpeg;

    location ~* ^.+\.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|gz|svg|svgz|ttf|otf|woff|eot|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|zip|swf)$ {
      add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
      expires max;
      access_log off;
    }

    if (-f $request_filename) {
      break;
    }
}