vhost.conf

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name www.example.com example.com;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/example.access.log traffic;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/example.stable.full.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/example.stable.error.log;

    root /path/to/my/files;

    error_page  404  404.html;

    autoindex off;

    client_max_body_size 0;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        rewrite_log on;
        rewrite "^/movies/([^/]+)/(video.mp4)$" /movie.php?key=$1&vid=$2 last;
    }

    location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|ico|xml)$ {
        access_log        off;
        log_not_found     off;
        expires           30d;
        add_header Pragma public;
                add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate";
    }

    #use fastcgi for all php files
        location ~ .php$ {
                error_page 404 404.php;
                gzip on;
                try_files $uri =404;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 15360m;
                fastcgi_read_timeout 150s;
                fastcgi_buffers 8 128k;
                fastcgi_buffer_size 256k;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        #fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
                include fastcgi_params;
    }

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

    #deny access to apache .htaccess files
        location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}

#####################################Example API Mode (For external downloader & clients)#######################################
server
{
    server_name api.example.com;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/example.api.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/example.api.error.log;

    root /path/to/my/api;

    error_page  404  404.html;

    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    client_max_body_size 0;

    # use fastcgi for all php files
    location ~ \.php$ {
        gzip on;
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 150s;
        fastcgi_buffers 8 128k;
        fastcgi_buffer_size 256k;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }

    # deny access to apache .htaccess files
    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny all;
    }
}
#####################################/Example API Mode ()for external downloader & clients)######################################