Zoneminder not rendering when authentication is enabled

Hi all, this is my first post

I have zoneminder installed (the one compiled to use nginx) and it is working beautifully when no authentication is required to access zoneminder.

I am having a problem however when I try to enable a username and password. For some reason the video is not showing up when it is enabled. After looking at the logs I can see that the sockets either are not being created or the sockets that are created cannot be connected to. Sample err from log below

socket_sendto( /tmp/zm/zms-> 259629s.sock ) failed: No such file or directory

Looking at an Ubuntu thread here, two methods seemingly fixed the issue

1) Keep the default zone apache.conf without the ScriptAlias.


2) Stop both zoneminder and apache2
sudo service apache2 stop
sudo service zoneminder stop


2) Remove any stale sockets from /tmp/zm (default location):
sudo rm -vf /tmp/zm/*.*


3) sudo a2enmod cgi


4) Start zoneminder
sudo service zoneminder start


5) Start apache2
sudo service apache2 start

and

Set the correct timezone in etc/php5/apache2/php.ini. This fixed the time issue, unauthenticated user issue and the socket issue.

Since I am not using apache but nginx I am at a lost. Would someone with a little more experience be able to point me in the right direction?