nginx.conf for url routing - php

Question

I'm trying to have my index.php to handle http routing so make my app restful.
I've used the try_files directive within nginx.cong but did'nt work, I hit /blablabla and instead of going through index.php it throws a 404.
Here's my current nginx.conf
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user www-data;
worker_processes 1;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush on;
#keepalive_timeout 0;
keepalive_timeout 65;
tcp_nodelay on;
gzip on;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
server {
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
}
}
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Answer 1

You might want to try something like this, works like a charm for me:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ #rules;
}
location #rules {
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?param=$1;
}
This looks for the location at / which is your web root. All of your web accessible files are found in this directory. If a file exists, it'll take you to that file. If not, then it'll throw you into the #rules block. You can use regexp matching to vary your url formatting. But in short, the (.*) matches any string in your url and takes you to your index. I modified what you had written slightly to feed the original input in to index.php as a parameter. If you don't do this, your script won't have any info about how to route the request.
For example, then going to /blablabla will mask the url but pull up /index.php?param=blablabla so long as /blablabla isn't a directory.
Hope this helps!

Answer 2

server {
listen 80;
server_name example.com;
index index.php;
error_log /path/to/example.error.log;
access_log /path/to/example.access.log;
root /path/to/public;
location / {
try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
}
location ~ \.php {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_NAME $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}