How to serve PHP files outside the public folder?

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For serving the PHP scripts, I use this location

location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index  index.php;
fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}

now I want to keep a folder outside the public folder to be served as a

location /private/ {
/* serving static files from /private/$server_name/ */
location ~ \.php$ {
/* serving PHP scripts from /private/$server_name/ */
}
}

How should set this location to serve the files from outside the public
folder?

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,242193,242193#msg-242193