Add vhost support for Vanilla forum

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Introduction

Vanilla was born out of the desire to create flexible, customizable, and downright entertaining community solutions. Vanilla has been used to power tens of thousands of community forums around the world and we couldn't be happier if you've decided to use Vanilla to grow yours.

Official download site

https://mybb.com/download/

Current latest version

https://open.vanillaforums.com/get/vanilla-core-3.3
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/releases

Installation

https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/installation/self-hosting/

Sample Nginx directive

 # Block some folders as an extra hardening measure.
    location ~* /\.git { deny all; return 403; }
    location /build/ { deny all; return 403; }
    location /cache/ { deny all; return 403; }
    location /cgi-bin/ { deny all; return 403; }
    location /uploads/import/ { deny all; return 403; }
    location /conf/ { deny all; return 403; }
    location /tests/ { deny all; return 403; }
    location /vendor/ { deny all; return 403; }

    # This handles all the main requests thru index.php.
    location ~* ^/index\.php(/|$) {
        # send to fastcgi
        include fastcgi.conf;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME /index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root/index.php;
        fastcgi_param X_REWRITE 1;
        fastcgi_pass php-fpm; # where 'php-fpm' is the upstream, probably defined in nginx.conf 
    }

    # If this is some other PHP script, disallow it by redirecting to /index.php
    location ~* \.php(/|$) {
        rewrite ^ /index.php$uri last;
    }

    # Default path handling
    location / {
        try_files $uri @vanilla;
    }
    
    location @vanilla {
        rewrite ^ /index.php$uri last;
    }