IP.Board Nginx conf rewite not working

I've been trying to get a bug fixed in the url rewrite but currently nginx fails when restarted.

Anyone see anything obvious I'm missing?

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Code:

server {
            server_name astro.nz www.astro.nz;
            return 301 http://www.astro.nz$request_uri;
        }


# ngx_pagespeed & ngx_pagespeed handler
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeed.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedhandler.conf;
#include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pagespeedstatslog.conf;

  # limit_conn limit_per_ip 16;
  # ssi  on;

  access_log /home/nginx/domains/astro.nz/log/access.log combined buffer=32k;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/astro.nz/log/error.log;

  root /home/nginx/domains/astro.nz/public;


#    location / {

        # block common exploits, sql injections etc
        # include /usr/local/nginx/conf/block.conf;

        # Enables directory listings when index file not found
        # autoindex  on;

        # Shows file listing times as local time
        # autoindex_localtime on;

#        try_files    $uri $uri/ /index.php;
#    }

    location ~^(/page/).*(\.php)$ {
        try_files  $uri $uri/ /index.php;
    }


    # IP.Board PHP/CGI Protection

    # Allow Access to Interface Files
    # Add Your Specific Application to the List if you Add New Applications
    location ~ ^/applications/(blog|calendar|chat|cms|core|downloads|forums|gallery|nexus|pastebin|companydirectory|rules|videos|notes|iawards|links|pmviewer|readthattopic|rules)/interface/.*\.(?:php\d*|phtml)$ {
        allow all;
        include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
    }

    # Block Access to PHP / PHTML Files
    location ~ ^/(uploads|datastore|system|plugins)/.*\.(?:php\d*|phtml)$ {
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;
    }

    # Block Access to Application PHP / PHTML Files
    # Add Your Specific Application to the List if you Add New Applications
    location ~ ^/applications/(blog|calendar|chat|cms|core|downloads|forums|gallery|nexus|pastebin|companydirectory|rules|videos|notes|iawards|links|pmviewer|readthattopic|rules)/.*\.(?:php\d*|phtml)$ {
        allow 127.0.0.1;
        deny all;
    }

    # Centmin Mod include files
    # Note:  If you uncomment the error pages include you won't see the IPB errors via the site.

    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;
    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
    # include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
    include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_server.conf;
}

 

"location" directive is not allowed here in /usr/local/nginx/conf/conf.d/astro.nz.conf:14

 

cool, that helped, so it needed to be within the server call.

 

So while its now working as far as nginx is concerned. I cannot get the friendly urls to rewrite.
The url portion displays as expected /blog /calendar etc but the page is 404 not found.
Any suggestions please?

 

thank you