I am running nginx+php-fpm on localhost for testing some stuff sites before uploading to a live server (which I have done with nginx in the past), and have run into the first issue which Google can't seem to help me with:

I have decided to try three different forum softwares. They are installed under separate subdirectories within my web root (e.g. /srv/www/localhost/html/{forum1,forum2,forum3}). On two of the forums, however, whenver I try to use anything that requires a password, it switches from http to https, and on one of the forums, attempts to continue using port 80. On the forum that it attempts to use port 80, I get the following error message:

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Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to localhost:80.

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.
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I do not have https or ssl configured within nginx or the vhost, nor any ssl certs.

Here is the vhost config file:
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server {
server_name localhost;
listen 80;
root /srv/www/localhost/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
ssi on;

location ~ \.php$ {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
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This very same configuration has worked fine on a live (online) server (save for the fact that I had to use a different server_name and root, for obvious reasons), and has never before produced any issues with ssl or switching to https, and I have used it with several other forums without it producing this strange behavior.

In case it matters, the two forum softwares I am having issues with are punbb and usebb. Punbb is the one that attempts https on port 80 and produces the error. Usebb doesn't attempt port 80 (it allows the browser to attempt port 443 as is default for https), which causes my browser to not be able to connect to the server since it's not even configured for port 443.

The third forum I have installed (Vanilla) doesn't attempt to use 443. However, since 2/3 of the forum softwares are doing this, I have to assume that the issue is nginx, but I am a bit too stupid in the area of servers to be able to troubleshoot the issue on my own, and Google seems to think that I'm trying to use https instead of trying to avoid https (the latter is the case).

I would much appreciate some help.

(I apologize for being a bit sloppy with posting the code snippets, but it seems that bbcode is disabled (at least the code tage is), which I guess I should've expect when this is joined with a mailing list)

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