Quick Server Setup

basename.conf

# Gets the basename of the original request
map $request_uri $request_basename {
  ~/(?<captured_request_basename>[^/?]*)(?:\?|$) $captured_request_basename;
}
# Gets the basename of the current uri
map $uri $basename {
  ~/(?<captured_basename>[^/]*)$ $captured_basename;
}

default

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name ~^(?<domain>(www\.)?(?<project>.+)\.dev)$;
  root /var/apps/$project/public;
  index index.html index.php;
  
  location / {
    allow all;
    access_log        off;
    expires           0;
    add_header        Cache-Control private;

    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
  }
  
  location /media {
    autoindex on;
    autoindex_exact_size off;
    if ( $request_uri ~ ^/media/download/.+$ ) {
      add_header X-Content-Type-Options nosniff;
      add_header Content-Type "application/octet-stream";
      add_header Content-Disposition 'attachment; filename="$basename"';
      rewrite ^/media/download/(.+)$ /media/$1 last;
    }
  }
  
  include /etc/nginx/php.conf;
  include /etc/nginx/drop.conf;
}

drop.conf

location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location ~ /\.          { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
location ~ ~$           { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }

php.conf

location ~ \.php$ {
  expires off;
  include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;

  fastcgi_index index.php;

  fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
  fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
  fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME    $domain;

  fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

quick-server-setup.sh

#!/bin/bash

apt-get update
apt-get install -y python-software-properties

# Add custom repos
add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5
add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/stable

apt-get update

apt-get install -y ntp mysql-server mysql-client git libzend-framework-php libyaml-dev imagemagick libmagickwand-dev libmagickcore-dev memcached

# PHP5 Latest Stable + FPM, PEAR, dev
apt-get install -y php5 php5-fpm php5-dev php-pear php5-mysql php5-curl php5-intl php5-memcache

# Zend Framework
mv /etc/php5/conf.d/zend-framework.ini /etc/php5/mods-available/zend-framework.ini
php5enmod zend-framework

# libyaml + PHP-YAML
printf "\n" | pecl install yaml
echo 'Enabling PHP extension yaml'
echo 'extension=yaml.so' > /etc/php5/mods-available/yaml.ini
php5enmod yaml

# ImageMagick + php5-imagick
printf "\n" | pecl install imagick-3.1.0RC2
echo 'Enabling PHP extension imagick'
echo 'extension=imagick.so' > /etc/php5/mods-available/imagick.ini
php5enmod imagick

# PHP-OAuth
pecl install oauth
echo 'Enabling PHP extension oauth'
echo 'extension=oauth.so' > /etc/php5/mods-available/oauth.ini
php5enmod oauth

# Nginx Latest Stable
apt-get update
apt-get install -y nginx

service nginx restart
service php5-fpm restart