Great looking and educational framework but I'm really struggling here and would appreciate any passing nginxexpers having a look.

I've played with some other basic MVC frameworks and never had the problem where a normal nginx try_file wouldn't work.

So, for example:

location /manage/login {
     try_files $uri $uri/ /manage/login/index.php;
}

But, of course, I can see from the .htaccess and application.php that this uses ?url= GET arguments.

So, 5 hours of reading http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#.24arg_PARAMETER and http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#.24args and http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/converting_rewrite_rules.html I've tried various of the following.... (the install folder is in manage/login

location /manage/login {
try_files $uri $uri/ /manage/login/index.php?url=$uri;
}

also

try_files $uri $uri/ /manage/login/index.php?url=$uri;
try_files $uri $uri/ /manage/login/index.php?url=$args;
try_files $uri $uri/ /manage/login/index.php?url=$uri$args;
try_files $uri $uri/ /manage/login/index.php?$args;

and other combinations of the above. No matter what I put, it always says:

You are in the controller home, using the method index()
You are in the View: application/views/home/index.php

I found another lost soul at http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,247614,247647#msg-247647 but again, he wasn't having much luck.