Pretty URLs or how do I get rid of: 'index.php?p=/' on nginx?

After a fresh move to a local vanilla installation, my routes are all ugly:

forum/index.php?p=/discussions/etc...etc...

How can I change these to pretty urls? Like:

forum/discussions/etc.. etc...

How do I make 'index.php?p=/' disappear?

Todd

Two things:

1. Make sure pretty urls will work for your site. You can do this by browsing to a few pretty urls and make sure they come up properly.
2. Edit the following config setting:
   $Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;

aarocco

This blog is a sub-directory of an existing wordpress site. The wordpress site has pretty urls working, but when I try pretty urls on the forum it doesn't take.

Any idea why?

Todd

You need an .htaccess file. Vanilla ships with one that works in most cases. A lot of ftp programs will ignore this file when you upload because it begins with a .. Make sure the file is there and give it another try.

x00

make sure you ftp client has hidden files shown.

aarocco

.htaccess is there, i don't use ftp, i use scp

I believe it is an issue with fastCGI not getting the path_info variable passed to it from nginx. i have a feeling this can only be rectified on nginx conf.

trying some variations of what is listed here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/9915/vanilla-on-nginx

will update if successful.

aarocco

OK boys:

The fix to my problem turned out to be relatively simple.

Addition to nginx config file:
location /forum {try_files $uri $uri/ @forum;}
location @forum {rewrite ^/forum(.+)$ /forum/index.php?p=$1 last;}

Restart nginx.

Change false to true in the Vanilla conf file:
$Configuration['Garden']['RewriteUrls'] = TRUE;