NGINX and WordPress help…An Unexpected HTTP Error

Getting a strange error when I try to browse to the install pages on my site’s wp-admin, running 32-bit Arch, NGINX 0.8.53, PHP 5.3.3 (fpm-fcgi), and so far I’ve tried this on WP 3.0.0 and 3.0.1.

An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.

The common solution (which did not work for me…or a litany of other users according to what I’ve found on google) is to change the timeout in wp-includes/class-http.php to something greater than or equal to 30 seconds:

'timeout' => apply_filters( ‘http_request_timeout’, 5)

After changing this setting I cleared my browser’s cache and still received error.

Here is my nginx.conf:

user			nginx	nginx;
worker_processes	1;
pid			/var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
	worker_connections	1024;
}

http {
	set_real_ip_from	204.93.240.0/24;
	set_real_ip_from	204.93.177.0/24;
	set_real_ip_from	199.27.128.0/21;
	real_ip_header		CF-Connecting-IP;

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

	log_format	main	'$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local]  '
				'"$request" $status $bytes_sent '
				'"$http_referer" "$http_user_agent" '
				'"$gzip_ratio"';

	client_header_timeout	3m;
	client_body_timeout	3m;
	send_timeout		3m;

	client_header_buffer_size	1k;
	large_client_header_buffers	4	4k;

	gzip			on;
	gzip_min_length		1100;
	gzip_buffers		4	8k;
	gzip_types		text/plain;

	output_buffers		1	32k;
	postpone_output		1460;

	sendfile		on;
	tcp_nopush		on;

	tcp_nodelay		on;

	keepalive_timeout	75	20;

	include			/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}

Here is this vhost’s config file:

server {
	server_name	direct.powermy.biz	www.powermy.biz	powermy.biz;
	access_log	/var/log/nginx/powermybiz.access.log main;
	error_log	/var/log/nginx/powermybiz.error.log;

	location / {
		root	/srv/www/powermy.biz/public_html;
		index	index.html	index.htm	index.php;
		try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?q=$uri&$args;
	}

	location ~ \.php$ {
		root		/srv/www/powermy.biz/public_html;
		fastcgi_pass	unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
		fastcgi_index	index.php;
		fastcgi_param	SCRIPT_FILENAME	/srv/www/powermy.biz/public_html/$fastcgi_script_name;
		fastcgi_param	PHP_ADMIN_VALUE	"open_basedir=/srv/www/powermy.biz/public_html/:/srv/www/powermy.biz/logs/:/tmp/\nupload_tmp_dir=/tmp/";
		fastcgi_param	PHP_VALUE	"allow_url_fopen=off";
		include		fastcgi_params;
	}
}

Before you ask, yes I have tried enabling fopen in both the vhost config and my php.ini and I have restarted php-fpm and nginx after making those changes, still to no avail.

Any help is appreciated!