! Description

I am trying to switch from apache to nginx. for my wordpress and vanillaforums setup.
Essentially I need the wordpress rewrite to work correctly with vanilla forums 
rewrite. 

I have gist'd the apache rewrite I'm trying to emulate and 
my current nginx config. 

Apache Redirect

####################################################
# This lived in an .htaccess file at {ROOT}/forums 
####################################################

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [QSA,L]
</IfModule>

Nginx config

upstream myphp {
        server 127.0.0.1:53217;
}

server {
        listen   80;
        server_name  www.example.com;
        rewrite ^/(.*) http://example.com/$1 permanent;
}

server {

        listen   80;
        server_name example.com;

        access_log /home/deploy/public_html/example.com/shared/log/access.log;
        error_log /home/deploy/public_html/example.com/shared/log/error.log;

        location / {

                root   /home/deploy/public_html/example.com/current/public/;
                index  index.php index.html index.htm;

                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;

        }


        location ~\.php$ {
                fastcgi_pass   myphp;
                fastcgi_index  index.php;
                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    /home/deploy/public_html/example.com/current/public/$fastcgi_script_name;  # same pa$
                fastcgi_param  HOME_ROOT          /home/deploy/public_html/example.com/current/public/forums;

                fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
                fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
                fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
                fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

                fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
                fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
                fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
                fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;

                fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

                fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
                fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
                fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

                # required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
                fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;
        }


        ####################################
        # AN ASSORTMENT OF THINGS I'VE TRIED
        ####################################
 
        #location /forums/ {
        #       try_files $uri $uri/ /forums/index.php?q=$uri&$args;
        #       try_files $uri $uri/ @forums;
        #}

        #location @forums {
        #       include fastcgi_params;
        #       fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/forums/index.php;
        #       fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING q=$uri&$args;
        #       fastcgi_pass my_php;
        #}



}