Nginx config for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8

insready.com

server {
  server_name www.insready.com;
  root /srv/www/insready.com/public_html; ## <-- Your only path reference.
  access_log /srv/www/insready.com/logs/access.log;
  error_log /srv/www/insready.com/logs/error.log;
 
  location = /favicon.ico {
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }
 
  location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }
 
  # This matters if you use drush
  location = /backup {
    deny all;
  }
 
  # Very rarely should these ever be accessed outside of your lan
  location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
    deny all;
  }
 
  location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
    return 403;
  }
 
  location / {
    # This is cool because no php is touched for static content
    try_files $uri @rewrite;
  }
 
  location @rewrite {
    # Some modules enforce no slash (/) at the end of the URL
    # Else this rewrite block wouldn't be needed (GlobalRedirect)
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
  }
 
  location ~ \.php$|^/update.php {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    #NOTE: You should have "cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0;" in php.ini
    include fastcgi_params;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
    
    fastcgi_cache microcache;
    fastcgi_cache_bypass $no_cache;
    fastcgi_no_cache $no_cache;

    # Set cache key to include identifying components
    fastcgi_cache_key $cache_uid@$host$request_uri$request_method;

    fastcgi_cache_valid 200 301 15s;
    fastcgi_cache_valid 302     1m;
    fastcgi_cache_valid 404     1s;
    fastcgi_cache_min_uses 1;
    fastcgi_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header updating http_500;
    fastcgi_ignore_headers Cache-Control Expires;
    fastcgi_pass_header Set-Cookie;
    fastcgi_pass_header Cookie;
    
    ## Add a cache miss/hit status header.
    add_header X-Micro-Cache $upstream_cache_status;
    
    ## To avoid any interaction with the cache control headers we expire
    ## everything on this location immediately.
    expires epoch;
    
    ## Cache locking mechanism for protecting the backend of too many
    ## simultaneous requests.
    fastcgi_cache_lock on;
  }
 
  location ~* ^(?!/system/files).*\.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|ttf|svg)$ {
    ## If the image does not exist, maybe it must be generated by drupal (imagecache)
    try_files $uri @rewrite;
    expires 7d;
    log_not_found off;
  }

  ## private files protection
  location ~ ^/sites/.*/private/ {
    access_log off;
    deny all;
  }
}