Server block example for a WordPress site on Nginx on a DigitalOcean droplet

goforself.me

server {
        server_name www.goforself.me goforself.me;
        listen 80;
        client_max_body_size 20M;
        port_in_redirect off;
        access_log   /var/log/nginx/goforself.me.access.log;
        error_log    /var/log/nginx/goforself.me.error.log error;

        root /var/www/goforself;
        index index.php;

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

        # Cache static files for as long as possible
        location ~*.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|css|rss|atom|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|cur)$ {
        expires max;
        log_not_found off;
        access_log off;
        }

        # Deny public access to wp-config.php
        location ~* wp-config.php {
                deny all;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                try_files $uri =404;
                include fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        }
}