Nginx Upgrading site from VB4 to XF2 and can't get the redirect to work

I've upgraded a site from domain.com/forum/ running on vb4 to domain.com/ --- I've followed the instructions and put the rewrite version of index.php in the /forum/ sub directory but I can't get the nginx portion of the config to work properly.... it can never find the thread.

I've tried all the suggestions here: XenForo Redirects for vBulletin

I commented out this code as it didn't work:

Code:

#  location /forum/ {
#  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-only.conf;
#  try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$uri&$args;
#  }

Any ideas?

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I already have that in my site.com.ssl.conf file in the normal place --- it is needed for pretty URL's. If I need to add it into another section other than the location / stanza, where else would it go?

Code:

#x# HTTPS-DEFAULT
 server {

   server_name coffeeforums.com www.coffeeforums.com;
   return 302 https://coffeeforums.com$request_uri;
   root /home/nginx/domains/coffeeforums.com/public;
   include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
 }


server {
  listen 443 ssl http2;
  server_name coffeeforums.com www.coffeeforums.com;

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/coffeeforums.com/coffeeforums.com.crt.key.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl_include.conf;

  # cloudflare authenticated origin pull cert community.centminmod.com/threads/13847/
  #ssl_client_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/ssl/cloudflare/coffeeforums.com/origin.crt;
  #ssl_verify_client on;



  # mozilla recommended
  ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS;
  ssl_prefer_server_ciphers   on;
  #add_header Alternate-Protocol  443:npn-spdy/3;

  # before enabling HSTS line below read centminmod.com/nginx_domain_dns_setup.html#hsts
  #add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains;";
  #add_header X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN;
  add_header X-Xss-Protection "1; mode=block" always;
  add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
  #add_header Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin";
  #add_header Permissions-Policy "accelerometer=(), camera=(), geolocation=(), gyroscope=(), magnetometer=(), microphone=(), payment=(), usb=()";
  #spdy_headers_comp 5;
  ssl_buffer_size 1369;
  ssl_session_tickets on;

  # enable ocsp stapling
  resolver 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 valid=10m;
  resolver_timeout 10s;
  ssl_stapling on;
  ssl_stapling_verify on;

# 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/coffeeforums.com/log/access.log combined buffer=256k flush=5m;
  error_log /home/nginx/domains/coffeeforums.com/log/error.log;

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/autoprotect/coffeeforums.com/autoprotect-coffeeforums.com.conf;
  root /home/nginx/domains/coffeeforums.com/public;
  # uncomment cloudflare.conf include if using cloudflare for
  # server and/or vhost site
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/cloudflare.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-main.conf;

#location ~* ^/forum/*/(/.+\.(js|css|jpg|php|html))$ {
#    alias /forums/index.php$1;
#}

#  location ~ ^/forum/$ {
#  try_files $uri $uri/ /forum/index.php?$uri&$args;
#  }

  location / {
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-only.conf;
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri&$args;


# 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;

  # Wordpress Permalinks example
  #try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;

  }

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf;

  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pre-staticfiles-local-coffeeforums.com.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/pre-staticfiles-global.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/staticfiles.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/drop.conf;
  #include /usr/local/nginx/conf/errorpage.conf;
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/vts_server.conf;
}

Edit: I added this code and it doesn't work either.

Code:

location /forum/ {
try_files $uri /index.php?$uri&$args;
}

 

I added that to php-coffee.conf and told coffeeforums.com to use that instead of php.conf -- with the following code:

Code:

location ~ [^/]\.php(/|$) {
  include /usr/local/nginx/conf/503include-only.conf;
    fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?\.php)(/.*)$;
    if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
        return 404;
    }
    try_files $uri /forum/index.php?$uri&$args;
    #fastcgi_keep_conn on;
    fastcgi_pass dft_php;
    #fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
    #fastcgi_pass   unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    #fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME    $request_filename;
    #fastcgi_param PHP_ADMIN_VALUE open_basedir=$document_root/:/usr/local/lib/php/:/tmp/;

The old directory was /forum/ and the new directory is docroot, but I put the modified index.php that came with the redirect script in the /forum/ directory with the correct XF2 path... these types of URL's still error out:

http://www.coffeeforums.com/forum/caffeine-health/2401-dry-mouth.html

http://www.coffeeforums.com/forum/latte-art/3249-coffee-lovers.html

http://www.coffeeforums.com/forum/coffee-roasters/7308-data-loggers.html