diff --git a/mods/sample-nginx.config b/mods/sample-nginx.config
index 228c23e8bc..cac48109ca 100644
--- a/mods/sample-nginx.config
+++ b/mods/sample-nginx.config
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ##
-# Friendica Nginx configuration
+# Red Nginx configuration
 # by Olaf Conradi
 #
 # On Debian based distributions you can add this file to
@@ -22,24 +22,24 @@
 
 ##
 # This configuration assumes your domain is example.net
-# You have a separate subdomain friendica.example.net
-# You want all Friendica traffic to be HTTPS
+# You have a separate subdomain red.example.net
+# You want all red traffic to be https
 # You have an SSL certificate and key for your subdomain
 # You have PHP FastCGI Process Manager (php5-fpm) running on localhost
-# You have Friendica installed in /mnt/friendica/www
+# You have Red installed in /var/www/red
 ##
 
 server {
   listen 80;
-  server_name friendica.example.net;
+  server_name red.example.net;
 
   index index.php;
-  root /mnt/friendica/www;
-  rewrite ^ https://friendica.example.net$request_uri? permanent;
+  root /var/www/red;
+  rewrite ^ https://red.example.net$request_uri? permanent;
 }
 
 ##
-# Configure Friendica with SSL
+# Configure Red with SSL
 #
 # All requests are routed to the front controller
 # except for certain known file types like images, css, etc.
@@ -52,24 +52,40 @@ server {
   server_name friendica.example.net;
 
   ssl on;
+
+  #Traditional SSL
   ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/friendica.example.net.chain.pem;
   ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/example.net.key;
+  
+  # If you have used letsencrypt as your SSL provider, remove the previous two lines, and uncomment the following two (adjusting the path) instead.
+  # ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
+  # ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
+
   ssl_session_timeout 5m;
-  ssl_protocols SSLv3 TLSv1;
-  ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:+LOW:+SSLv3:+EXP;
+  ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
+  ssl_ciphers ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:AES128-SHA256:AES256-SHA256:AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:DES-CBC3-SHA:!DSS;
   ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
 
+  fastcgi_param HTTPS on;
+
   index index.php;
   charset utf-8;
-  root /mnt/friendica/www;
+  root /var/www/friendica;
   access_log /var/log/nginx/friendica.log;
+    #Uncomment the following line to include a standard configuration file
+    #Note that the most specific rule wins and your standard configuration
+    #will therefore *add* to this file, but not override it.
+  #include standard.conf
   # allow uploads up to 20MB in size
   client_max_body_size 20m;
   client_body_buffer_size 128k;
 
   # rewrite to front controller as default rule
   location / {
-    rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?q=$uri&$args last;
+    if ($is_args != "") {
+        rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?q=$uri&$args last;
+    }
+    rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?q=$uri last;
   }
 
   # make sure webfinger and other well known services aren't blocked
@@ -122,5 +138,7 @@ server {
   location ~ /\. {
     deny all;
   }
+	
 }
 
+