Generic nginx config for many sites

gistfile1.txt

user  nginx;
worker_processes  1;

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


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';

    access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log  main;

    sendfile        on;
    #tcp_nopush     on;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    # Compression -- Stolen from https://mattstauffer.co/blog/enabling-gzip-on-nginx-servers-including-laravel-forge
    gzip  on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";

    # Enable compression both for HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1.
    gzip_http_version  1.1;

    # Compression level (1-9).
    # 5 is a perfect compromise between size and cpu usage, offering about
    # 75% reduction for most ascii files (almost identical to level 9).
    gzip_comp_level    5;

    # Don't compress anything that's already small and unlikely to shrink much
    # if at all (the default is 20 bytes, which is bad as that usually leads to
    # larger files after gzipping).
    gzip_min_length    256;

    # Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies,
    # identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront).
    gzip_proxied       any;

    # Tell proxies to cache both the gzipped and regular version of a resource
    # whenever the client's Accept-Encoding capabilities header varies;
    # Avoids the issue where a non-gzip capable client (which is extremely rare
    # today) would display gibberish if their proxy gave them the gzipped version.
    gzip_vary          on;

    # Compress all output labeled with one of the following MIME-types.
    gzip_types
      application/atom+xml
      application/javascript
      application/json
      application/rss+xml
      application/vnd.ms-fontobject
      application/x-font-ttf
      application/x-web-app-manifest+json
      application/xhtml+xml
      application/xml
      font/opentype
      image/svg+xml
      image/x-icon
      text/css
      text/plain
      text/x-component;
    # text/html is always compressed by HttpGzipModule

    include /sites/workdir/*/master/nginx.conf;
}