symfony 404 error - problems with mod_rewrite - php

Question

Opening Symfony/web/app_dev.php shows 404 file not found, trying to open other pages (except config page) again shows 404 file not found. I read that there is problems with mod rewrite.
This is my server configuration:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /home/user/Projects/stereoshoots/www;
server_name stereoshoots.local;
location / {
autoindex on;
# try_files $uri $uri/ #rewrite;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
# location #rewrite {
# rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?q=$1;
# }
location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|png|js|ico|xml|txt)$ {
access_log off;
expires 30d;
}
location = /favicon.ico {
return 204;
access_log off;
log_not_found off;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
How do i solve this problem?

Answer 1

For a symfony2 app have a look at this sample config file to get the info you are looking for:
http://wiki.nginx.org/Symfony
You want your server root to be in the web directory
root /home/user/Projects/stereoshoots/www/Symfony/web;
Then redirect all requests in there to the app.php
rewrite ^/app\.php/?(.*)$ /$1 permanent;