user  nginx;
worker_processes  5;

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


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


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

    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;

    keepalive_timeout  65;

    gzip  on;

    passenger_root /usr/lib/phusion-passenger;
    passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby;

    index index.html index.htm index.php;


    server {
    	listen 80 default_server;
	    server_name _;

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

	    root   /var/www/default;
    }

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; # empty
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; # see below for example
}





Some of the configs in sites-enabled:


server {
  listen          80;
  server_name     java.test;
  root            /var/www/test/java;

  gzip on;
  gzip_proxied any;
  gzip_types text/plain text/css application/javascript application/xml application/json;

  location / {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8810;
    proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
  }
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name test.php;
  rewrite ^ $scheme://www.test.php$request_uri redirect;
}

server {
	listen 80;

	server_name www.test.php;

	root /var/www/test/php;

	access_log /var/log/nginx/test.php.access.log;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/test.php.error.log;

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

  location /system/* {
    return 403;
  }

	# This block will catch static file requests, such as images, css, js
	# The ?: prefix is a 'non-capturing' mark, meaning we do not require
	# the pattern to be captured into $1 which should help improve performance
	location ~* \.(?:ico|css|js|gif|jpe?g|png)$ {
		# Some basic cache-control for static files to be sent to the browser
		expires max;
		add_header Pragma public;
		add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate";
	}

	location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
	location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
	location ~ /\.          { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }
	location ~ ~$           { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }

	location ~ \.php {
        fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
        fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
        fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
        fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
        fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
        fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;

        fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx;

        fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
        fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
        fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

        fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
}