We now have our phpBB forum running on Nginx web server, a high quality and significantly better performing web server than Apache HTTPD. Soem of the challenges we faced were:

  1. We use nice permalinks in the forum so there are lots of apache httpd rewrite rules in .htaccess files which had to be converted to nginx format.
  2. Additionally we also had to configure it for a virtual hosting setup where the same IP address (server) is shared by multiple websites.

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