Problem with switching PHP code from Apache to Nginx - php

Question

On Apache we used to have a URL like MyUrl.com/UserId and in the root index.php code executed that got the request_uri that had the UserId. In Nginx instead it looks for a folder called UserId which doesn’t exist. How can I modify the Nginx config to still use the root index.php file instead of look for a non existent folder?
Here is my current nginx config:
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/MyUrl.com/before/*;
server {
listen 443 ssl http2;
listen [::]:443 ssl http2;
server_name MyUrl.com;
root /home/forge/MyUrl.com;
rewrite_log on;
# FORGE SSL (DO NOT REMOVE!)
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/MyUrl.com/766650/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/MyUrl.com/766650/server.key;
ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA512:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/dhparams.pem;
add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block";
add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/MyUrl.com/server/*;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log /var/log/nginx/MyUrl.com-access.log combined;
error_log /var/log/nginx/MyUrl.com-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.4-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_read_timeout 180;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
deny all;
}
location /api/v1/ {
rewrite_log on;
index index.php;
fastcgi_index index.php;
error_page 405 =200 $uri;
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite /api/v1/(.*)$ /api/v1/api.php?request=$1 break;
}
}
client_max_body_size 128M;
}
# FORGE CONFIG (DO NOT REMOVE!)
include forge-conf/MyUrl.com/after/*;

Answer 1

Apache and Nginx use different configuration formats. You need to convert what is currently in your .htaccess file into a format that Nginx understands.
This is an example of an Apache .htaccess configuration:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
In Nginx it could look something like this:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
Take a look at these questions for more details:
Converting .htaccess to nginx (mod_rewrite)
Convert htaccess to nginx rewrite
Also this tool might help with the conversion:
https://winginx.com/en/htaccess