nginx.conf

events {
    worker_connections 1024;
}

http {
    include       /etc/nginx/mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    # Gzip compression
    gzip on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_min_length 10240;
    gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private auth;
    gzip_types
        text/plain
        text/css
        text/xml
        text/javascript
        application/javascript
        application/xml+rss
        application/json;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
        root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index  index.html index.htm;

        # Handle Jekyll pretty URLs
        location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html =404;
        }

        # Cache static assets
        location ~* \.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|svg)$ {
            expires 1y;
            add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
        }

        # Security headers
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN" always;
        add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
        add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;

        # Custom error pages
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   /usr/share/nginx/html;
        }
    }
}