Nginx & Dolphin rewrite rules.

I have a question about where to include the rewrite rules and the actual syntax of the location block.

First, do I place the location block in the server section of Nginx config for the Dolphin website?  Second, do I just use location {}?

Example:

server {
    listen       80;
    server_name  www.dolphin_site.net dolphin_site.net;

    root   /var/www/public_html/dolphin_site;

    # serve static files directly
    location ~* ^.+(templates|flash|media|plugins)/.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
        access_log        off;
        expires           30d;
    }

    # deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
    # concurs with nginx's one
    #
    location ~ /.ht {
        deny  all;
    }

  location {

  rewrite rules here

  }

Is that example correct?  My plan is to include the rewrites from a config file.  So for Nginx:

location {

include /path to rewrite file/dolphin_rewrite.conf

}

Would that be correct?

I am so new to Nginx but excited to start working with it as I hear such good things concerning Dolphin performance on Nginx.

I think you should install ispconfig on your server that makes things lot easier to manage. You have to reinstall everything to get ispconfig working.

At this time I am not going to redo the server box; I had it pulled to get that albatross known as PLESK off and since they returned a bare box I decided to go with Nginx and php-fpm.  I am using webmin to help manage things and I can edit config files using the file manager in webmin with ease (not that I can not use the vi editor but why should I?).

Now, about my original question concerning the Dolphin rewrites....?

The answer is no, because I am not specifying the location.  So, for the rewrite location block is this correct?

location / {

include dolphin_rewrites.conf;

}

 Yes, it should be correct if dolphin_rewrites.conf file is in the same folder and included file contains rewrite rules.

 Where to put rewrite rules in ispconfig3?

 Select the options tab for your webdomain and copy and past the rules to the nginx Directives block.

 What if the website is not live? i haven't connected the server to the domain. I am just testing offline. So how could i enable the rewrite?

You can put the file containing the rewrite rules any place you desired.  If you are having trouble doing an include, just copy and paste the rules directly into the server block for your website.