remove .php extension from url in nginx - php

Question

i have a nginx server running and want to remove the .php extension from my files. I have allready tried a few things but the only thing i managed to accopmplish was breaking the fastcgi proccessing leading into downloading php files. The server is running fine with the following configuration:
##
# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
##
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GC$
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/dhparams.pem;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
root /usr/share/nginx/html/example/;
index index.php;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location /uploads {
deny all;
}
error_page 404 /templates/404.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
}
location ~* \.(?:ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|font.css|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
location ~ /\. {
deny all;
}
}
Thank you for your effort and time.

Answer 1

##
# Virtual Host configuration for example.com
##
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
return 301 https://www.example.com$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES128-GC$
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/dhparams.pem;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
root /usr/share/nginx/html/example/;
index index.php;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ #extensionless-php; // add #extensionless-php
}
location /uploads {
deny all;
}
error_page 404 /templates/404.php;
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404; // add this
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi.conf;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
}
location #extensionless-php { // add this block
rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php last;
}
location ~* \.(?:ttf|ttc|otf|eot|woff|font.css|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|ico|css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
location ~ /\. {
deny all;
}
}
from this site http://www.tweaktalk.net/60/nginx-remove-php-file-extension-from-url