nginx-nested-locations

server {
    server_name  www.sitename.com;
    rewrite ^(.*) http://sitename.com$1 permanent;
}

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name sitename.com;
        root /var/www/sitename.com/htdocs/blog;
                index index.php;
		include /etc/nginx/security;

# Logging --
access_log  off;
error_log  /var/log/nginx/sitename.com.error.log warn;

        location = /favicon.ico {
                log_not_found off;
                access_log off;
        }

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

        # serve static files directly
        location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt)$ {
            access_log        off;
            expires           max;
        }

        location /api {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
		root /var/www/sitename.com/htdocs;
        	index index.php;

        	location ~ \.php$ {
			try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
	                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm/sitename.com.socket;
        	        fastcgi_index index.php;
                	include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
	        }

	}

        location ~ \.php$ {
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm/sitename.com.socket;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        }
}