vhost.conf

#create a file on /etc/nginx/sites-available/VHOST.conf

server {
        listen   80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
        server_name VHOST.MYSITE.com;
        root /usr/share/nginx/www;
        index index.html index.htm;

        userid on;
        userid_name uid;
        userid_domain MYSITE.com;
        userid_expires max;

        set $myid $uid_got;

        location = /crossdomain.xml {
                echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM \"http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd\"><cross-domain-policy><allow-access-from domain=\"*\" /></cross-domain-policy>";
                  expires       modified +24h;
                  access_log off;
                  error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
        }

        location / {
                if ($uid_got = ""){
                        set $myid $uid_set;
                }

                expires -1;
#               return 204;  #use this if you want an empty response
                empty_gif;   #use this if you want an empty gif response
        }

        location /healthcheck {
                    try_files $uri $uri $uri =404;
                    access_log off;
                    error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
        }           
        
        location /nginx_status {
          stub_status on;
          access_log   off;
          allow 127.0.0.1;
          deny all;
          access_log off;
          error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
        }

        # !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
        # the log format is for Amazon AWS only, if you have the real IP, change
        # the ip variable to $remote_addr

        log_format VHOST        '$ip - $remote_user [$time_local]  '
                                '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent '
                                '"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
                                '"$myid"';

        # /mnt is the AWS's fastest partition
        access_log /mnt/log/nginx/VHOST.access.log VHOST;
        error_log /mnt/log/nginx/VHOST.error.log;
}