After a bit back and forth with configuring Drupal and nginx to work together, I've come up with the below configuration for a site. It works well, both with private and public file systems. However, as I am fairly new to nginx I'd like to hear if there is something with this configuration that I should change (for

Please note! I'm aiming towards getting feedback on a general purpose Drupal configuration. That is, a configuration which others who are trying out Drupal + nginx can "copy paste" to get up and running.

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name www.example.* example.*;
  access_log /home/example/www/logs/access.log;
  error_log /home/example/www/logs/error.log;
  root /home/example/www/public_html;

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

  # Search Engines
  location = /robots.txt {
    allow all;
    log_not_found off;
    access_log off;
  }

  # Drush
  location = /backup {
    deny all;
  }

  # Very rarely should these ever be accessed from outside
  # the local network.
  location ~* \.(txt|log)$ {
    allow 10.0.0.0/8;
    allow 172.16.0.0/12;
    allow 192.168.0.0/16;
    deny all;
  }

  location ~ \..*/.*\.php$ {
    return 403;
  }

  # Default location
  location / {
    try_files $uri @rewrite;
  }

  # Files managed by Drupal will be served via PHP.
  location ~* /system/files/ {
    access_log off;
    try_files $uri @rewrite;
  }

  ## Images and static content is treated different
  location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml)$ {
    access_log off;
    expires 30d;
  }

  # Some Drupal modules enforce no slash (/) at the end
  # of the URL.
  location @rewrite {
    rewrite_log on;
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
  }

  # PHP5-FPM is used to handle PHP.
  location ~ \.php$ {
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/example.sock;
    fastcgi_index index.php;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include fastcgi_params;
    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_intercept_errors on;
    fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off;
    fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
    fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
    fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
    fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
    fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
    fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
  }

  ## Disable viewing .htaccess & .htpassword
  location ~ /\.ht {
    deny all;
  }
}