Nginx Configuration for Drupal 7

nginx.conf

worker_processes  1;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    client_max_body_size 256M;

  server {
    listen 80;
    server_name mysite.local;   # rename mysite to your site alias
    root /Users/myname/docroot; # set root path to your docroot

    gzip_static on;

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

    location = /robots.txt {
      allow all;
      log_not_found off;
      access_log off;
    }

    location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
      allow 192.168.0.0/16;
      deny all;
    }

    location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
      return 403;
    }
    location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ {
      return 403;
    }
    location ~ (^|/)\. {
      return 403;
    }

    location / {
      try_files $uri @rewrite;
    }

    location @rewrite {
      rewrite ^ /index.php;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
      fastcgi_index index.php;
      include fastcgi_params;
      fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
      fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
      fastcgi_pass backend_php;
    }

    location ~ ^/sites/.*/files/styles/ {
      try_files $uri @rewrite;
    }

    location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
      expires max;
    log_not_found off;
    }
  }

  upstream backend_php {
      server 127.0.0.1:9000;
  }
}