Nginx working configuration for 1.7.XX

I've posted a working sample config below. Included is a set of rewrite rules that allows us to serve up static html pages from the "static" directory. If we're advertising a product like http://yourdomain.com/super-popular.html that we expect many thousands of concurrent hits to, we may opt to save the html of super-popular.html in the static directory to skip php entirely. Nginx absolutely crushes Apache in serving up these pages in particular.

We've experienced rock solid performance with the config below.

server { listen 80 default ; server_name www.yourdomain.com; root /var/www/production/web; ## allow for html source of super high volume product pages to be put in "static" directory and served without php if ($http_host ~ "^(.*)yourdomain.com"){ set $rule_0 1; } if ($uri ~ "^(.*)$"){ set $rule_0 2$rule_0; } if ($http_referer !~* ".*yourdomain.com"){ set $rule_0 3$rule_0; } if (-f $document_root/static$request_uri){ set $rule_0 4$rule_0; } if ($rule_0 = "4321"){ rewrite ^/.*$ /static/$request_uri last; } ## Images and static content is treated different location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ { access_log off; expires 30d; root /var/www/production/web/; } location / { index index.html index.php; ## Allow a static html file to be shown first try_files $uri $uri/ @handler; ## If missing pass the URI to Magento's front handler expires 30d; ## Assume all files are cachable } ## These locations would be hidden by .htaccess normally location /app/ { deny all; } location /includes/ { deny all; } location /lib/ { deny all; } location /media/downloadable/ { deny all; } location /pkginfo/ { deny all; } location /report/config.xml { deny all; } location /var/ { deny all; } location /nginx-config/ { deny all; } location /. { ## Disable .htaccess and other hidden files return 404; } location @handler { ## Magento uses a common front handler rewrite / /index.php; } location ~ .php/ { ## Forward paths like /js/index.php/x.js to relevant handler rewrite ^(.*.php)/ $1 last; } location ~ .php$ { ## Execute PHP scripts if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite / /index.php last; } ## Catch 404s that try_files miss expires off; ## Do not cache dynamic content fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; fastcgi_buffer_size 128k; fastcgi_buffers 4 256k; fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k; fastcgi_read_timeout 120; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_CODE yourdomain_store; fastcgi_param MAGE_RUN_TYPE store; include fastcgi_params; ## See /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params } access_log /var/log/nginx/yourdomain.com-access_log combined; }