Nginx rewrite arguments - php

Question

I use Nginx with my webserver, and don't fully understand how the rewrite works here. I got it working on Apache.
I use MVC based PHP project, and i want to use clean URL's as i have done with Apache.
www.domain.com/index.php?url=home/index works fine.
www.domain.com/home/index does not work.
As you can see, i want to have clean URL's like the last one.
I've tried several rewrites, and don't know if I should use try_files or rewrite. But I guess it's rewrite im after.
As I said, I'm still learning the rewrite.
My server block looks like this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html/pub/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ #rewrite;
}
location #rewrite {
rewrite ^/index.php?$arg_url /$arg_url permanent;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
I thought my rewrite block made sense, but I guess it doesn't. Tried several rewrites, either I get 500 or 404 error. And as I said, I don't get rewrites yet. Need some help to get started.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Not an expert with nginx either but I think you are looking for something like this:
location / {
index index.html index.htm index.php;
if (!-d $request_filename) {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
break;
}
}
Then you can remove that rewrite directive
The rest of my config looks like this:
location ~ \.php$ {
root /var/www/path;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
#try_files $uri=404;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
fastcgi_buffers 2564k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 256k;
}
location ~ /\.git {
denyall;
}
#Staticfileslocation
location ~* ^.+.(swf|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|bmp|js|zip)$ {
expires max;
root /var/www/path;
}

Answer 2

Try with this:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
listen [::]:80 default_server ipv6only=on;
root /usr/share/nginx/html/pub/;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
server_name localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ #rewrite;
}
location #rewrite {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?url=$1 last;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}