example-site.conf

# redirect www.example.com to example.com
server {
  listen 80;
  listen 443 ssl spdy;
  server_name www.example.com blog.example.com;
  rewrite ^ https://example.com$request_uri? permanent;

  access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com_access_log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/example.com_error_log;
}

server {
  server_name example.com;
  listen 80;
  listen 443 default ssl spdy;

  error_page 404 /404.html;

  if ($ssl_protocol = "") {
    rewrite ^ https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
  }

  add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000;";

  # concatenate any intermediate certificates into one file to ensure
  # the full certificate chain is sent to users
  ssl_certificate      /etc/nginx/ssl/startssl/example-concatenated.com.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key  /etc/nginx/ssl/startssl/example.com.key;

  access_log /var/log/nginx/example.com_access_log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/example.com_error_log;

  ### This is the location on the web server where your Octopress files are
  ### published. Setting this here means you don't have to set it for any of the
  ### individual locations you define below.
  root /var/www/localhost/htdocs;

  ### This tells Nginx to use "index.html" as the default index page everywhere
  index index.html;

  ### This disables automatic directory index creation, since no one will be
  ### browsing your directories anyway
  autoindex off;

  ### Here we define the root location...
  location / {
  ### ...and then work some magic with "try_files", telling Nginx that for every
  ### request that comes in to /, it should first try to serve the URI exactly
  ### as it is, and if it doesn't find anything by that name to then try and
  ### serve the URI as a directory, and if it doesn't find a directory by that
  ### name to then spit out a 404 error and give up.
      try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }

  ### This location definition prevents Nginx from serving any files which begin
  ### with a dot, and further to not log any access attempts or 404s for files
  ### which begin with dots, to keep your access and error logs clean.
  location ~ /\. {
      access_log off;
      log_not_found off;
      deny all;
  }

  ### This location definition prevents Nginx from serving any files which begin
  ### with a dollar sign, so Nginx will refuse to serve out a temp file if you
  ### are doing any editing inside a web-available directory
  location ~ ~$ {
      access_log off;
      log_not_found off;
      deny all;
  }
  ### These next two locations simply prevent Nginx from logging every time the
  ### favicon & robots.txt files are accessed, to keep the logs clean
  location = /robots.txt {
      log_not_found off;
  }

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