Enabeling SSL causes Redirect Loop errors?

Server NGINX
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I am new to Nginx but learning every day. I have the server setup
nicely and the regular webpages serve up fine. I have multiple IP’s on
the server (less than 20) and I am trying to enable SSL for 3 different
sites (each on a different IP). I have read for hours looking at
examples and trying many different things to see if I can get the SSL
pages to serve up and no luck. I am hoping someone can help me.
Running debian lenny, nginx 1.0.6, php 5.3.8, php-fpm, I am only
wanting to run one domain SSL per IP, (Bogus domain name has been
inserted below)

nginx.conf

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

events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}

http {

    ##
    # Basic Settings
    ##

    sendfile on;
    tcp_nopush on;
    tcp_nodelay on;
    keepalive_timeout 60 60;
    types_hash_max_size 2048;
    # server_tokens off;

    # server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
    # server_name_in_redirect off;

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

    ##
    # Logging Settings
    ##

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

    ##
    # Gzip Settings
    ##

    gzip on;
    gzip_disable "msie6";

    gzip_vary on;
    # gzip_proxied any;
    gzip_comp_level 6;
    gzip_buffers 16 8k;
    gzip_http_version 1.1;
    gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json

application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
text/javascript;

    ##
    # Virtual Host Configs
    ##

    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
    include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;

}

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

There NO conf files located in the above folder. I have not set up any
site specific conf files yet.

vhost entry (one try)

server {
listen 80;
listen 206.201.217.7:443 ssl;
server_name www.luvinlife.com luvinlife.com;

    ssl_certificate /usr/nginx/certs/luvinlife.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /usr/nginx/certs/luvinlife.key;

    client_max_body_size 5m;

    root /var/www/luvinlife.com/public_html;
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    index index.html index.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        #fastcgi_pass       unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_pass        127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index       index.php;
        include             fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param       SCRIPT_FILENAME

$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
}
}

version check :

nginx: nginx version: nginx/1.0.6
nginx: TLS SNI support enabled
nginx: configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx
–conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf
–error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log
–http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body
–http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi
–http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log
–http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy
–http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi
–http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi
–lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid
–with-debug --with-http_addition_module --with-http_dav_module
–with-http_geoip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module
–with-http_image_filter_module --with-http_realip_module
–with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_ssl_module
–with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module --with-ipv6
–with-sha1=/usr/include/openssl --with-md5=/usr/include/openssl
–with-mail --with-mail_ssl_module
–add-module=/usr/src/nginx/source/nginx-1.0.6/debian/modules/nginx-echo
–add-module=/usr/src/nginx/source/nginx-1.0.6/debian/modules/nginx-upstream-fair

SSL Page Error message:

The webpage at https://www.luvinlife.com/index.php/customer/account/ has
resulted in too many redirects. Clearing …

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There are two things to be aware of here:

  1. fastcgi_param HTTPS on; - add this to your location ~ .php$ {}.
  2. If you use php-fpm chroot set:
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $fastcgi_script_name;
    fastcgi_param PATH_TRANSLATED $fastcgi_script_name;
    Thats because your document root will be just /, but only if your chroot
    dir = your actual site dir.

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