Redirecting to controller/action - php

Question

I want to be able to convert the following link:
http://domain.com/foo/bar
into http://domain.com/index.php?controller=foo&action=bar
using php5-fpm. I also want to be able to access static files inside www/ folder. How do I do that? This is what I have so far:
server {
charset utf-8;
client_max_body_size 8M;
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4
server_name domain.com;
root /var/www/domain.com/www;
index index.php;
access_log /var/log/nginx/domain.com.access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/domain.com.error.log;
location / {
rewrite ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?controller=$1&action=$2;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.(ht|svn|git) {
deny all;
}
}
But it gives me blank page and no get parameters. How should I do this?

Answer 1

The try_files directive is useful when serving static files, if they exist, and rewriting the URI if they do not. See this document for details.
There are a number of ways to achieve this, for example:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ #rewrite;
}
location #rewrite {
rewrite ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?controller=$1&action=$2 last;
return 404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
}