<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Thanks for your input Francis.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">What I suspected seemed old but I really don't understand the problem I am facing.<br>

<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Consider the following server configuration for some phpBB forum:<br>server {<br>        listen          80;<br>        server_name     <a href="http://b.cd">b.cd</a>;<br>

        try_files       $uri $uri/;<br><br>        root    /var/www/phpBB3;<br>        index   index.html index.htm index.php;<br>        include fastcgi.conf;<br><br>        location /favicon.ico {<br>            access_log off;<br>

            log_not_found off;<br>            expires 7d;<br>            return 204;<br>        }<br><br>        location ~ \.php$ {<br>                try_files $uri =404;<br>                fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;<br>

        }<br>}<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Requesting <a href="http://b.cd">b.cd</a> in the browser ends up wth a HTTP 500 error:<br>'[error] 12345#0: *42 rewrite or internal redirection cycle while internally redirecting to "/", client: 12.34.56.78, server: <a href="http://b.cd">b.cd</a>, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", host: "<a href="http://b.cd">b.cd</a>"'<br>

<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Adding / at the end of try_files so it reads:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">try_files       $uri $uri/ /;<br>

</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">solves the problem...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Really, I don't get it.<br>Any insight on what is going on?<br>

</div><div class="gmail_extra"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">---<br></span><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">B. R.</span></b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></font>
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