nginx.conf

user www-data;
daemon off;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
  include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
  types_hash_max_size 2048;
  server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
  server {
      listen 80;
      access_log /var/log/nginx/MYSERVER.access.log combined;
      error_log /var/log/nginx/MYSERVER.error.log error;

      root /var/www/gitlist;
      index index.php;

#   auth_basic "Restricted";
#   auth_basic_user_file .htpasswd;

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

      location ~* ^/index.php.*$ {
          fastcgi_index index.php;
          fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

          # if you're using php5-fpm via tcp
          # fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;

          # if you're using php5-fpm via socket
          fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;

          include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
      }

      location / {
          try_files $uri @gitlist;
      }

      location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico)$ {
      add_header Vary "Accept-Encoding";
          expires max;
          try_files $uri @gitlist;
          tcp_nodelay off;
          tcp_nopush on;
      }

#   location ~* \.(git|svn|patch|htaccess|log|route|plist|inc|json|pl|po|sh|ini|sample|kdev4)$ {
#       deny all;
#   }

      location @gitlist {
          rewrite ^/.*$ /index.php;
      }
  }
}