URL rewriting with Nginx and Vanilla forum
19 Jun 2013
Having just migrated a number of sites from Apache to the Nginx webserver here’s the below Nginx config to get URL rewriting working correctly with Vallia Forums
location /forum {try_files $uri $uri/ @forum;}
location @forum {rewrite ^/forum(.+)$ /forum/index.php?p=$1 last;}
This assumes you already have the configs to get PHP working with Nginx and have the forum installed at /forum
A number of forum posts detail a much more complex way to get Vanilla working - but as long as you have PHP running fine all you need is the above config and it’ll work
