server {
  # Insert your general directives (listen, server_name, root, gzip...) here.

  # Treat / as /index.php. (But don't redirect to it.)
  location = / {
    rewrite .* /index.php last;
  }

  # Handle PHP scripts.
  location ~ \.php$ {
    # Insert your configurations for processing PHP files here. (At Agora, we
    # use FastCGI, which means using the fastcgi_pass directive.)
  }

  location / {
    # Handle directories. (This is a bit of a hack, but it allows NGINX to play
    # nicely with a PHP index file. You can always do something a bit smarter
    # here if you prefer, for example: "if (-f $request_filename/index.php)")
    if (-d $request_filename) {
      rewrite ^(.*)/$ $1/index.php redirect;
      rewrite ^(.*)$  $1/index.php redirect;
    }

    # If the requested file didn't exist, then check for vBulletin rewrite
    # rules. (We check for the presence of the requested file first in order to
    # serve images properly.)
    if (!-f $request_filename) {
      # Forum
      rewrite ^/threads/.*$             /showthread.php?$args   last;
      rewrite ^/forums/.*$              /forumdisplay.php?$args last;
      rewrite ^/members/.*$             /member.php?$args       last;
      rewrite ^/blogs/.*$               /blog.php?$args         last;
      rewrite ^/entries/.*$             /entry.php?$args        last;

      # MVC
      rewrite ^/([^/]*\.php)(?:/(.*))?$ /$1?r=$2                last;
      rewrite ^/([^/]*)(?:/(.*))?$      /$1.php?r=$2            last;
    }
  }
}