403 Forbidden Redirect To Homepage - php

Question

I am trying to redirect a 403 Forbidden request to the homepage of our website (index.php). An example URL that is receiving a 403 error message is this URL: https://www.acme.com/dr/mellow/. I tried adding the following line to my configuration file: error_page 403 /index.php;. When I did that, I no longer receive the 403 Forbidden message, I just receive a blank white page. I simply would like to redirect to /index.php. I am currently running an NGINX server. Here is my configuration file:
server {
server_name acme.com;
return 301 $scheme://www.acme.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 80;
server_name www.acme.com;
#BEGIN SSL
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/acme.com.chained.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/acme.com.key;
# Makes for the most secure connections
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_ciphers AES256+EECDH:AES256+EDH:!aNULL;
#END SSL
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html $uri.php?$query_string;
}
error_page 403 =200 /index.php;
error_page 404 /index.php;
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/html;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
##BEGIN ALLOWING LARGE UPLOADS##
client_max_body_size 100M;
## BEGIN CACHING SETTINGS ##
# Media: images, icons, video, audio, fonts, HTC
location ~* \.(?:jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|cur|gz|svg|svgz|mp4|ogg|ogv|webm|htc|woff)$ {
expires 30d;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
# CSS and Javascript
location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
expires 30d;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
## END CACHING SETTINGS ##
}