Nginx can not read .php routes of laravel who not exist - php

Question

I have created some Laravel routes with they have ".php" extention, such as
Route::get('/api/send.php', function(){
echo 'Hi There';
});
But when I open the route it shows 404 error in Nginx server... That is Nginx configurations
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server;
root /var/www/laravel/public;
# Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
What is the problem? I have used the same code it worked before..
Thanks
SOLVED
It solved by changing
try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404;
in /etc/nginx/snippets/fastcgi-php.conf to
try_files $fastcgi_script_name /index.php?$query_string;

Answer 1

This is a very common problem with nginx configured to serve PHP applications, especially Laravel. You can reproduce it on sites like laravel.com, e.g: laravel.com/example.php.
The default configuration (what you're probably using in snippets/fastcgi-php.conf) is this:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
And fastcgi_script_name is...
request URI or, if a URI ends with a slash, request URI with an index file name configured by the fastcgi_index directive appended to it. This variable can be used to set the SCRIPT_FILENAME and PATH_TRANSLATED parameters that determine the script name in PHP. For example, for the “/info/” request with the following directives
That means, when a request URI contains .php it is treated as if it is a request for a PHP file, and if that PHP file doesn't exist an error is returned by nginx -- it never reaches your application.
The solution is to force fastcgi_script_name to always equal your application's entry point, in this case that's index.php. You can either edit snippets/fastcgi-php.conf or add it into your location block like this:
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root/index.php;
}
Your application will now receive every request, including those that have .php in the path.