server {

    listen *:80;
    server_name domain.tld *.domain.tld;

    access_log /path/to/log/access.log;
    error_log /path/to/log/error.log debug;

    client_max_body_size 6M;

    root    /path/to/webroot;
    index   index.php;

    location / {
     error_page 404 index.php;
     error_page 403 /403.html;

      # the main drupal app
      if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1 last;
      }
    }

    # serve static files directly
    location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
        #rewrite ^/favicon.ico$ /sites/drupal-6.x/themes/mytheme/favicon.ico break;
        access_log        off;
        expires           30d;
    }

    # imagecache needs to have php read any files that it's planning to manipulate
    location ^~ /sites/all/files/imagecache/ {
       index  index.php index.html;
       # assume a clean URL is requested, and rewrite to index.php
        if (!-e $request_filename) {
            rewrite  ^/(.*)$  /index.php?q=$1  last;
            break;
        }
    }

    # serve the app via fastcgi
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_read_timeout 240;
        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /\.ht {
         deny  all;
    }
}