vBulletin 5.05 and 5.10 RC1 - Centmin mod Nginx revised vhost configuration as at March 13th, 2014

gistfile1.nginxconf

        # legacy css being handled separate for performance
        location ^~ /vb5/css.php {
        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/phpvb5.conf;
        rewrite ^ /vb5/core/css.php break;
        }
        
        # make install available from root
        location ^~ /vb5/install/ {
                rewrite ^ /vb5/core/install/ break;
        }

        # configuration rules
        # any request to not existing item gets redirected through routestring
        location ^~ /vb5/ {
        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/phpvb5.conf;

                if (!-f $request_filename) {
                        rewrite ^/vb5/(.*)$ /vb5/index.php?routestring=$1 last;
                }
        }

        # make admincp available from root
        location ^~ /vb5/admincp {
                if (!-f $request_filename) {
                        rewrite /vb5/admincp/(.*)$ /vb5/index.php?routestring=admincp/$1 last;
                }
        }
        
contents of /usr/local/nginx/conf/phpvb5.conf

  location ~ /vb5/.*\.php$ {

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/vb5/(.*)$ /vb5/index.php?routestring=$1 break;
        }
    
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
    fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    #fastcgi_pass   unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    #fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $request_filename;

fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
fastcgi_buffer_size 256k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
#fastcgi_param HTTPS on;

fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED    $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;

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;

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

}