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+server {
+    listen      %ip%:%web_port%;
+    server_name %domain_idn% %alias_idn%;
+    root        %docroot%;
+    index       index.php index.html index.htm;
+    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domains/%domain%.log combined;
+    access_log  /var/log/nginx/domains/%domain%.bytes bytes;
+    error_log   /var/log/nginx/domains/%domain%.error.log error;
+    location = /favicon.ico {
+        log_not_found off;
+        access_log off;
+    }
+
+    location = /robots.txt {
+        allow all;
+        log_not_found off;
+        access_log off;
+    }
+
+    # legacy css being handled separate for performance
+    location = /css\.php {
+        rewrite ^ /core/css.php break;
+    }
+
+    # make install available from presentation
+    location ^~ /install {
+        rewrite ^/install/ /core/install/ break;
+    }
+
+    # any request to not existing item gets redirected through routestring
+    location / {
+        if (!-f $request_filename) {
+            rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?routestring=$1 last;
+        }
+
+        location ~* ^.+\.(jpeg|jpg|png|gif|bmp|ico|svg|css|js)$ {
+            expires     max;
+        }
+
+    }
+
+    # make admincp available from presentation
+    location ^~ /admincp {
+        if (!-f $request_filename) {
+            rewrite ^/admincp/(.*)$ /index.php?routestring=admincp/$1 last;
+        }
+    }
+
+    # process any php scripts, not found gets redirected through routestring
+    location ~ \.php$ {
+    # handles legacy scripts
+        if (!-f $request_filename) {
+            rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?routestring=$1 break;
+        }
+
+        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
+        fastcgi_pass %backend_lsnr%;
+        fastcgi_index index.php;
+        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
+        include fastcgi_params;
+        fastcgi_param QUERY_STRING $query_string;
+        fastcgi_param REQUEST_METHOD $request_method;
+        fastcgi_param CONTENT_TYPE $content_type;
+        fastcgi_param CONTENT_LENGTH $content_length;
+        fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
+        fastcgi_ignore_client_abort off;
+        fastcgi_connect_timeout 60;
+        fastcgi_send_timeout 180;
+        fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
+        fastcgi_buffers 256 16k;
+        fastcgi_buffer_size 32k;
+        fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
+
+        include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
+    }
+
+    error_page  403 /error/404.html;
+    error_page  404 /error/404.html;
+    error_page  500 502 503 504 /error/50x.html;
+
+    location /error/ {
+        alias   %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/document_errors/;
+    }
+
+    location ~* "/\.(htaccess|htpasswd)$" {
+        deny    all;
+        return  404;
+    }
+
+    location /vstats/ {
+        alias   %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/stats/;
+        include %home%/%user%/web/%domain%/stats/auth.conf*;
+    }
+
+    include     /etc/nginx/conf.d/phpmyadmin.inc*;
+    include     /etc/nginx/conf.d/phppgadmin.inc*;
+    include     /etc/nginx/conf.d/webmail.inc*;
+
+    include     %home%/%user%/conf/web/nginx.%domain_idn%.conf*;
+}