nginx_app.conf

error_page 404 = @handler;
error_page 405 = @handler;

index  index.php index.html index.htm;

charset utf-8;

client_max_body_size 50M;

# to test nginx health
location /webserver-status {
    access_log off;
    return 200 'OH YEAAA';
    add_header Content-Type text/plain;
    break;
}

# block .composer files
location ~ composer\..* {
    deny all;
    log_not_found off;
}

# block node files
location ~ node_modules {
    deny all;
    log_not_found off;
}

# try static files first, then directory, then fall back to @handler
location / {
    try_files   $uri $uri/ @handler;
    expires     30d;
}

# redirect requests into index.php?some/directory/thing
location @handler {
    rewrite ^ /index.php?/$request_uri;
}

# handle any request starting with index.php
location ~ ^/index.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;

    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;

    fastcgi_pass        heroku-fcgi;
    fastcgi_index       index.php;
    fastcgi_param       SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param       FUEL_ENV production;
    fastcgi_param       HTTPS 'on';
    fastcgi_param       PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=50M \n post_max_size=50M \n memory_limit=250M \n max_execution_time=100";
    include             fastcgi_params;
}

# Directives to send expires headers and turn off 404 error logging.
location ~* ^.+\.(ogg|ogv|svg|svgz|eot|otf|woff|mp4|ttf|rss|atom|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|ppt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|css)$ {
    access_log off;
    log_not_found off;
    expires max;
}

# deny direct access to any php files
location ~ \.php$ {
    deny all;
    break;
}