I was able to accomplish my objective with some help from the tutorial
at:
http://www.howtoforge.com/running-phpmyadmin-on-nginx-lemp-on-debian-squeeze-ubuntu-11.04

location /pma {
root /var/www/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location ~ ^/pma/(.+\.php)$ {
try_files $uri =404;
root /var/www/;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
location ~* ^/pma/(.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|html|xml|txt))$ {
root /var/www/;
}
}
location /PMA {
rewrite ^/* /pma last;
}

I don't know if the key is the nested location block, or something else.
If anyone is able to point-out the fundamental differences between the
configuration snippet that I posted previously and the snippet above,
which actually works, I would be most appreciative.

Thank you!

-Ben

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