Xenforo Xenforo and Nginx when installation directory is underneath public folder

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• CentOS Version: Centos 7 64 Bit
• Centmin Mod Version Installed: Latest beta as of about a week ago
• Nginx Version Installed: 1.13.8
• PHP Version Installed: 7.2.2
• MariaDB MySQL Version Installed: 10.1.31
• When was last time updated Centmin Mod code base ? : today
• Persistent Config: No Do you have any persistent config file options set in /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc ?

I have installed Xenforo 2.0.2 in /home/nginx/domain/mydomain.com/public/community. When I go to my web site, the index.html from the public directory keeps being used. I want the default path to be https://mydomain.com/community rather than MyDomain | Domain Names, Web Hosting, and Free Domain Services, so Xenforo is referenced rather than the index.html in the public directory. Is it required that I complete the steps described for nginx at the link below at a minimum? If so, it does not seem to make any difference.
Friendly URLs | XenForo

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I have looked at the information at the link below, but I want to start out simple and see if I can get things working correctly before I do additional step(s).

Nginx Rewrites for Xenforo Friendly Urls - CentminMod.com LEMP Nginx web stack for CentOS

 

Thanks for the reply. I have looked at the Xenforo Friendly URLs link, but I found other references that indicated that some of the information there should no longer be used. I also looked at Nginx Rewrites for Xenforo Friendly Urls - CentminMod.com LEMP Nginx web stack for CentOS and I have tried to update the mydomain.ssl.conf file with a basic configuration based on some information I found on that page. See below. It is not working. I am thinking I might have to put the Xenforo installation in the public folder rather than in public/community, if I can't get this working fairly soon.

Code:

        location /community/ {
            index index.php index.html index.htm;
            try_files $uri $uri/ /community/index.php?$uri&$args;

        }

        location /community/internal_data/ {
        internal;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        allow 0.0.0.0;
        deny all;
        }

        location /community/library/ {
        internal;
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        allow 0.0.0.0;
        deny all;
        }

 

If I go to MyDomain | Domain Names, Web Hosting, and Free Domain Services it references the index.html that currently exists in /home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public. My Xenforo installation is in a folder underneath the public folder:
/home/nginx/domains/mydomain.com/public/community. When I go to MyDomain | Domain Names, Web Hosting, and Free Domain Services (or MyDomain | Domain Names, Web Hosting, and Free Domain Services for that matter), I want Xenforo to run.

 

That is exactly what is happening! I can get to the Xenforo site by going to https://www.mydomain.com/community. I was perhaps taking the line below from the Xenforo 2 installation documentation a bit to literally (and assuming that since pages are already being displayed from the public folder, I should not install Xenforo there). Anyway, I was going to try and install into the public folder (rather than attempt to have it in public/community), so that is what I will now do. Thanks for your help.

 

It works find after I installed the Xenforo 2 into public rather than into public/community. Thanks again for helping me "think" through the process more clearly.