Nginx PHP configuration example.

example-nginx.conf

# http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#try_files
# http://laravel-recipes.com/recipes/26/creating-a-nginx-virtualhost

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name www.sitename.dev sitename.dev;
    charset utf-8;
    
    access_log /var/log/nginx/sitename.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/sitename.error.log;

    root /srv/www/sitename/public;
    index index.html index.php;

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

    location = /favicon.ico { 
        access_log off; 
        log_not_found off; 
    }
    
    location = /robots.txt  { 
        access_log off; 
        log_not_found off; 
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
        # Defines a regular expression that captures a value for the $fastcgi_path_info variable. 
        # The regular expression should have two captures: the first becomes a value of the 
        # $fastcgi_script_name variable, the second becomes a value of the $fastcgi_path_info variable.
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
        
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        
        try_files $uri =404; # This is not needed if you have cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0 in php.ini (you should!)
    }
}