[ubuntu] Nginx, Horde, Https, Redirect, This webpage has a redirect loop topic

I have an NGINX server with Horde installed so I can use webmail, and am getting two different errors depending on whether I'm using http -or- httpS.
I have setup debug within nginx and am not getting any inclination as to what the source of the error is.
Mail error/access logs have no errors.
I have successfully setup Postfix, and Dovecot (both tested/connected from telnet and Open_ssl from CLI).
My IP-ports are open (as needed).

Http works fine (http://www.mydomain.com/index.php).
HttpS does NOT work with this same URL.

HttpS does load the webmail loginPage BUT...
1. The page doesn't look right. It looks nothing like what it did when I was using Apache2 which leads me to believe something is not processing PHP correctly.
2. I cannot login directly through this webmail login page, BUT I can login using the Horde-TEST.php page provided by Horde.
Note: webmail http://www.mydomain.com/webmail/login.php
Horde-Test http://www.mydomain.com/webmail/test.php

So....
A) regular loginPage (loads, but can't login)
(httpS://www.mydomain.com/webmail/login.php)
B) Horde-Mail Test page (non-httpS) does load and the test(s) login is working for all imap/imapS and pop3/pop3S in the browser.
http://www.mydomain.com/webmail/test.php

-however, the test login page does not load at all if swtiched to httpS
httpS://www.mydomain.com/webmail/test.php

HttpS will load if a specific URL is typed (httpS://www.mydomain.com/webmail/login.php) -but I noticed that the page is graphically inaccurate. The structure of the page does not look like the Horde/Mail login page that I had when I was using Apache2.

When I setup a redirect for http to force https, the main website page not load "httpS://www.mydomain.com/index.php", but the webmail login page still does load...-but as before it will not let me log in...keeps giving me "Error ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT".

Lastly, I have verified that my php5-fpm config file "/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/www.conf" user/group statement (nginx) and the listen statement (listen = /tmp/php5-fpm.sock) are in agreement with what's setup in my nginx.conf configuration "fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;".

And I should mention, I also have prestashop loaded in the root website directory and there are no PHP errors with any of its functionality...-but I'm not suing any httpS on it at this time either...just http.

In summary:
I have errors when trying to use HTTPS.
1. httpS will not load the main webpage.
2. httpS will load the Horde_test page., AND the test tools connects successfully to imap/imaps/pop3/pop3s.
3. http will load the webmail login page, but gives "Error ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT".

The only known error that I am getting is from the CLI after reloading nginx whenever I've made a change to nginx.conf (even if I just add a comment line and change nothing else!) this is what happens:

Code:

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$ sudo service nginx reload
/etc/init.d/nginx: 2: /etc/init.d/nginx: Syntax error: newline unexpected

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-and sadly, once this happens...even the regualr main page without httpS now gives "ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS"...only rebooting starts this http working again.

Here's my nginx.conf file.

Code:

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user nginx;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;


events {
        worker_connections 768;
        # multi_accept on;
}


error_log /var/log/nginx/debuglog      debug;


http {


        ##
        # Basic Settings
        ##


        sendfile on;
        tcp_nopush on;
        tcp_nodelay on;
        keepalive_timeout 65;
        types_hash_max_size 2048;


        include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        default_type application/octet-stream;


        access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
        error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;




server {
        listen  80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
        #listen  [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6


        server_name mydomain.com *.mydomain.com;


        #Force http to use httpS
        #NOTE: I've turned this on ONLY to test...-same errors output for httpS noted in posting
        rewrite ^ https://$http_host$request_uri? permanent;    # force redirect http to https
                }






# HTTPS server
server {
        listen 443;
        keepalive_timeout  70;
        ssl_protocols      SSLv3 TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
        ssl_ciphers        AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:RC4-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:RC4-MD5;
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
        ssl on;
        ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/server.crt;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/server.key;
        server_name mydomain.com *.mydomain.com;
       
        #ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv3:+EXP;


  # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server
        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+?.php)(.*)$;
                if (!-f $document_root$fastcgi_script_name) {
                        return 404;
                        }
                #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_pass unix:/tmp/php5-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include fastcgi_params;
                        }


        root /usr/share/nginx/www/wcrc;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;


      }
}


# I'm not using the direct mail ports below as I'm using TLS through the browser/Horde-webmail instead.


#mail {
#      # See sample authentication script at:
#      # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
#      # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
#      # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
#      # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
#      server {
#              listen    localhost:110;
#              protocol  pop3;
#              proxy      on;
#      }
#
#      server {
#              listen    localhost:143;
#              protocol  imap;
#              proxy      on;
#      }
#}

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PORTS OPEN:
$ sudo netstat -ntlp | grep LISTEN
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1744/nginx
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:993 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 938/dovecot
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:995 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 938/dovecot
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 985/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:110 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 938/dovecot
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 938/dovecot
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1744/nginx
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 831/vsftpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 800/sshd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1215/master
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 800/sshd