nginx: how to serve /index.php of subfolders? - php

Question

I have a legacy php websiste that has been migrated to a new server with nginx (and php 7.4)
My nginx has near only this
server {
listen 80;
server_name domain.tld;
root /var/www/domain.tld;
error_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tld-error.log warn;
access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.tldt-access.log combined;
client_body_buffer_size 10M;
client_max_body_size 10M;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
}
If I access to mydomain.tld it works, it serves correctly mydomain.tld/index.php
but If I access mydomain.tld/subfolder or mydomain.tld/subfolder/ it doesn't serve mydomain.tld/subfolder/index.php as I expect
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

I resolved modifiying the suggestion of Daniel W
I moved the location / block under location ~ \.php$
But instead of remove the initial / I prepended also $uri
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
}
location / {
index index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/index.php?$args;
}
If I will find some pitfalls I will update my answer