I'm running into a couple issues helping a friend set up nginx to run an older perl script. I'm using spawn-fcgi with the fcgi wrapper.

Before I go any farther here is my current configuration:

server {
add_header Cache-Control public;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main buffer=32k;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log error;
expires max;
limit_req zone=gulag burst=200 nodelay;
listen 80;
server_name rpn.ishikawa.sne.jp;
index index.html index.htm default.html default.htm;
root /home/erealms/www;
location ~* (\.jpg|\.png|\.css)$ {
if ($http_referer !~ ^(http://rpn.ishikawa.sne.jp) ) {
return 405;
}
}
location = /favicon.ico {
return 204;
}
location /erealms/config {
root /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/config/;
gzip off;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/config$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location /erealms/admin {
root /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/admin/;
gzip off;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/admin$fastcgi_script_name;
}
location /erealms {
alias /home/erealms/ethereal/main;
gzip off;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:8000;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /home/erealms/ethereal/main$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

Basically, I need:
/erealms to serve out of /home/erealms/ethereal/main
/erealms/admin to serve out of /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/admin
/erealms/config to serve out of /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/config

Right now what I have in my config, when called, produces, for example /erealms/portal.pl passes /home/erealms/ethereal/main/erealms/portal.pl to the fcgiwrapper. To get around this I have implemented a very lazy symbolic link hack inside each directory. so right now I have symlinks

/home/erealms/ethereal/main/erealms -> /home/erealms/ethereal/main
/home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/admin/erealms/admin -> /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/admin
/home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/config/erealms/config -> /home/erealms/ethereal/mgmt/config

Not my finest hour, but I've been at trying to figure this out for a couple hours now, and I just wanted to get the darn thing working. If anyone has a more elegant solution, or a more elegant configuration idea, I would love to hear it.

Anyways, the main problem i'm running into now is that some of the administration scripts apparently use slashes. for example:

rpn.ishikawa.sne.jp/erealms/admin/system.pl/attribs?<some string of characters>

which when passed to the fcgiwrapper is treating system.pl as a directory. That's the biggest thing I need to fix right now. I know I've seen php sites that have a fix for this, but I'm just running in circles right now, and would appreciate any help.

Thanks for any help anyone might be able to offer.