Sample for Nginx settings on Openshift

nginx.conf.erb

# Enable Gzip
gzip  on;
gzip_http_version 1.0;
gzip_comp_level 2;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers     4 8k;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types
  text/css
  text/javascript
  text/xml
  text/plain
  text/x-component
  application/javascript
  application/json
  application/xml
  application/rss+xml
  font/truetype
  font/opentype
  application/vnd.ms-fontobject
  image/svg+xml;

gzip_static on;
gzip_proxied        expired no-cache no-store private auth;
gzip_disable        "MSIE [1-6]\.";
gzip_vary           on;

server {
    listen  <%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_NGINX_IP'] %>:<%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_NGINX_PORT'] %>;
    server_name  <%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_APP_DNS'] %>;
    root    <%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR'] %>/public;

    add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=691200;

    location / {
        index  index.html  index.htm  index.php ;

        try_files $uri $uri/ @rewrites;
    }

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

    location ~ /\.          { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
    location ~ ~$           { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }

    # Set expires max on static file types
    location ~* ^.+\.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|gz|svg|svgz|ttf|otf|woff|eot|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm)$ {
        access_log off;
        log_not_found off;

        # Some basic cache-control for static files to be sent to the browser
        expires max;
        add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
    }

    location @rewrites {
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 last;
    }

    # pass the PHP scripts to PHP-FPM
    # for only index.php requests, change next line 'location' for commented line below
    location ~ ^/index\.php(/|$) {
        fastcgi_pass unix:<%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_PHP_SOCKET'] %>;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_script_name;
        include <%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_NGINX_DIR'] %>/usr/nginx-<%= ENV['OPENSHIFT_NGINX_VERSION'] %>/conf/fastcgi_params;
    }
}

# opt-in to the future
add_header "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=Edge,chrome=1";