hey!

I have 2 questions for nginx users.

1) I'm trying to setup my joomla server onto my new linode running NGINX and after much (like days) of searching and testing, I finally have a config that works with with SEF url plugins...sorta. I was using an apache system on the old server and it used mod_rewrite and life was fine in terms of SEF. Since NGINX doesn't have mod_rewrite, I found something that works BUT it constantly leaves index.php in the urls.

ex: http://mysite.com/index.php/forum

i want it to be just http://mysite.com/forum but without mod_rewrite it doesn't seem to be possible in joomla that i'm aware of. I know in wordpress it IS possible but I have to use a plugin.

Here is my config file:

server {
 listen 80;
 server_name mysite.com www.mysite.com;

 access_log /home/public_html/mysite.com/log/access.log;
 error_log /home/public_html/mysite.com/log/error.log;
 root   /home/public_html/mysite.com/public/;

 large_client_header_buffers 4 8k; # prevent some 400 errors

 index           index.php index.html;
 fastcgi_index   index.php;

 location / {
 expires 30d;
 error_page 404 = @joomla;
 log_not_found off;
 }
 # Rewrite
 location @joomla {
 rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?q=last;
 }

 # Static Files
 location ~* ^.+.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico)$ {
 access_log        off;
 expires           30d;
 }
 # PHP
 location ~ \.php {
 keepalive_timeout 0;
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/public_html/mysite.com/public  /$fastcgi_script_name;
 }
 }

2) second question should be easy but i can't get it to work. I want to use the same config I posted above and have either mysite.com or www.mysite.com both forward to mysite.com/portal.

Basically when you hit up the front page with or without the www, it all gets forwarded to a sub directory on the server I called Portal.

I have tried several variations of:

  rewrite ^/(.*) http://www.example.com/portal/$1 permanent;

but it usually ends with firefox telling me there is some crazy loop happening the address bar saying something like mysite.com/portalportalportalportalportal.........on and on.

So, any help on either of these issues would be awesome!! Thanks!!