Sample full nginx.conf file

For more information on configuration, see:
* Official English Documentation: http://nginx.org/en/docs/
* Official Russian Documentation: http://nginx.org/ru/docs/

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

Load dynamic modules. See /usr/share/doc/nginx/README.dynamic.

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

   worker_connections 1024;

}
http {

   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;

   server_names_hash_bucket_size 128;
   server_tokens off;
   autoindex off;
   client_max_body_size 100M;

#   gzip on;

gzip_proxied any;

#   gzip_types text/plain application/xml text/css text/js text/xml application/x-javascript text/javascript application/json application/xml+rss;
 #  gzip_vary on;
  # gzip_disable "msie6";

BEGIN W3TC Browser Cache

gzip on;
gzip_types text/css text/x-component application/x-javascript application/javascript text/javascript text/x-js text/richtext text/plain text/xsd text/xsl text/xml image/bmp application/java application/msword $
add_header Referrer-Policy "no-referrer-when-downgrade";

END W3TC Browser Cache

   # Load modular configuration files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory.
   # See http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#include
   # for more information.
   include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

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

          # Load configuration files for the default server block.
          include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;
  index  index.php index.html index.htm;

  #Serve content in these writable folders as static files
      #Don't execute any scripts within
      location ^~ /wp-content/ {
      }
      location ^~ /pem/ {
      }
      location ^~ /tmp/ {
      }
      location ^~ /samples/ {
      }
      location ^~ /images/ {
      }

      location ~ "^.*/wp-content/.*$" {
      }
      location ~ "^.*/pem/.*$" {
      }
      location ~ "^.*/tmp/.*$" {
      }
      location ~ "^.*/samples/.*$" {
      }
      location ~ "^.*/images/.*$" {
      }

          location / {
                  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
          }

  location ~ [^/]\.php(.*) {
             fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
             set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
             fastcgi_index index.php;
             fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
             include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
             include fastcgi_params;
             fastcgi_param PATH_INFO  $path_info;
             fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
             fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
         }
         # Deny access to . files, for security
          location ~ /\. {
              log_not_found off;
              deny all;
          }
          error_page 404 /404.html;
              location = /40x.html {
              }

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

Settings for a TLS enabled server.

  server {
      listen       443 ssl http2 default_server;
      listen       [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
      server_name  _;
      root         /usr/share/nginx/html;

      ssl_certificate "/etc/pki/nginx/server.crt";
      ssl_certificate_key "/etc/pki/nginx/private/server.key";
      ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:1m;
      ssl_session_timeout  10m;
      ssl_ciphers PROFILE=SYSTEM;
      ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

      # Add DH parameters
      ssl_dhparam /etc/pki/nginx/dhparam.pem;
      # Load configuration files for the default server block.
      include /etc/nginx/default.d/*.conf;

index  index.php index.html index.htm;

Serve content in these writable folders as static files
Don't execute any scripts within

location ^~ /wp-content/ {
}
location ^~ /pem/ {
}
location ^~ /tmp/ {
}
location ^~ /samples/ {
}
location ^~ /images/ {
}
location ~ "^.*/wp-content/.*$" {
}
location ~ "^.*/pem/.*$" {
}
location ~ "^.*/tmp/.*$" {
}
location ~ "^.*/samples/.*$" {
}
location ~ "^.*/images/.*$" {
}
location / {

           try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
   }

location ~ [^/]\.php(.*) {

      fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
      set $path_info $fastcgi_path_info;
      fastcgi_index index.php;

fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php-fpm/www.sock;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO  $path_info;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
}
location ~ \.(css|htc|less|js|js2|js3|js4)$ {
expires 31536000s;
etag on;
if_modified_since exact;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.(html|htm|rtf|rtx|txt|xsd|xsl|xml)$ {
etag on;
if_modified_since exact;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.(asf|asx|wax|wmv|wmx|avi|bmp|class|divx|doc|docx|exe|gif|gz|gzip|ico|jpg|jpeg|jpe|webp|json|mdb|mid|midi|mov|qt|mp3|m4a|mp4|m4v|mpeg|mpg|mpe|webm|mpp|_otf|odb|odc|odf|odg|odp|ods|odt|ogg|pdf|png|pot|pps|ppt|pptx|ra|ram|svg|svgz|swf|tar|tif|tiff|_ttf|wav|wma|wri|xla|xls|xlsx|xlt|xlw|zip)$ {
expires 31536000s;
etag on;
if_modified_since exact;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

Deny access to . files, for security

location ~ /\. {
log_not_found off;

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

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

Sample full nginx.conf file

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