server {
       listen  80;
       server_name domain.com;
       charset utf-8;

	root /var/www/project/public;

       	location / {
               	index index.php;
       	}

        # removes trailing slashes (prevents SEO duplicate content issues)
        if (!-d $request_filename)
        {
                rewrite ^/(.+)/$ /$1 permanent;
        }

        # removes trailing "index" from all controllers
        if ($request_uri ~* index/?$)
        {
                rewrite ^/(.*)/index/?$ /$1 permanent;
        }

        # unless the request is for a valid file (image, js, css, etc.), send to bootstrap
        if (!-e $request_filename)
        {
                rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
                break;
        }

        location ~* ^.+\.php$ {
                fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT $document_root;
                include fastcgi_params;
        }
}