nginx config files for an ipfs-cluster peer gateway on Amazon Linux.

ipfs-gateway-nginx.conf

user nginx;
worker_processes auto;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /run/nginx.pid;

include /usr/share/nginx/modules/*.conf;

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    proxy_cache_path  /data/nginx/cache  levels=1:2    keys_zone=STATIC:10m   inactive=24h  max_size=1g;
    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;
    tcp_nodelay         on;
    keepalive_timeout   65;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;

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

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

    map $sent_http_content_type $expires {
        default                    off;
        text/html                  epoch;
        text/css                   max;
        application/javascript     max;
        ~image/                    max;
    }

    server {
        listen       80 default_server;
        listen       [::]:80 default_server;
        server_name  _;
        root         /usr/share/nginx/html;

        expires $expires;

        include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
            proxy_cache STATIC;
            proxy_cache_valid      200  1d;
            proxy_cache_use_stale  error timeout invalid_header updating
            http_500 http_502 http_503 http_504;
        }

        error_page 404 /404.html;
            location = /40x.html {
        }

        error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
            location = /50x.html {
        }
    }
}

nginx-gzip.conf

# most people include something like this. don't.
# check your default nginx.conf, it's already covered in a much better way.
#gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

# compress proxied requests too.
# it doesn't actually matter if the request is proxied, we still want it compressed.
gzip_proxied any;

# a pretty comprehensive list of content mime types that we want to compress
# there's a lot of repetition here because different applications might use different
# (and possibly non-standard) types. we don't really care, we still want them included
# don't include text/html -- it is always included anyway
gzip_types
	text/css
	text/plain
	text/javascript
	application/javascript
	application/json
	application/x-javascript
	application/xml
	application/xml+rss
	application/xhtml+xml
	application/x-font-ttf
	application/x-font-opentype
	application/vnd.ms-fontobject
	image/svg+xml
	image/x-icon
	application/rss+xml
	application/atom_xml;

# increase the compression level, at the expense of additional CPU
# cpu cycles are cheap virtually everywhere now, bandwidth not nearly as much
gzip_comp_level 9;

# the default is to gzip only HTTP 1.1 requests
# we want to gzip http 1.0 requests, too, so lower the level required
gzip_http_version 1.0;

# set the Vary: Accept-Encoding header to force proxies to store compressed and uncompressed versions
# per the nginx docs, a bug in IE 4 - 6 will cause them to not cache anything with this on
# most people aren't going to care about ie 6 anymore, but keep that in mind
gzip_vary on;

# increase the size of the buffers which hold responses to make sure larger content can be compressed too
# this means there are 16 buffers and they can each hold 8k
# if you serve a lot of ridiculously large text (like combined CSS) you might consider upping this slightly
gzip_buffers 16 8k;

# up the minimum length a little to account for gzip overhead
# this means anything smaller than 50 bytes won't be compressed.
# the default is 20 bytes, which is sooo tiny it's a waste to compress
gzip_min_length 50;

nginx-gzip.conf from https://gist.github.com/kilhage/7f0e7546457716dc9174