/etc/nginx/sites-enables/default:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name %SERVER_NAME%;
        access_log  /var/log/nginx/access.log;

        location / {
                 include /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;
        }
        location ~* ^.+\.(html|htm|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|tar|wav|b$
                root   /var/www/htdocs;
        }
}

/etc/nginx/proxy.conf:

proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080/;
proxy_redirect off;
proxy_set_header    Host              $host;
proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP         $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;

proxy_connect_timeout    90;
proxy_send_timeout    90;
proxy_read_timeout    90;

proxy_buffer_size    4k;
proxy_buffers        4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size    64k;


/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

user www-data;
worker_processes 2;

error_log  /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid        /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
    worker_connections 16350;
    # multi_accept on;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type application/octet-stream;

    access_log	/var/log/nginx/access.log;

    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush     on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  0;
    tcp_nodelay        on;

    gzip  on;
    gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

    server_tokens off;
    reset_timedout_connection on;
}