Nginx: Question mark in front controller rewrite rule - php

Question

Currently I have this piece of code:
if (!-e $request_filename)
{
rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 last;
break;
}
This works OK for the following:
example.com/foo redirects to index.php
However example.com/foo?bar doesn't work. How do you make it work?
FWIW: I don't experience this problem in Apache's mod_rewrite equivalent. Basically, I moved a site that works from Apache to Nginx. Now I experience this issue.
Edit:
To be clear here's what I indent to do:
example.com/foo
example.com/foo/bar/etc
example.com/foo?bar
example.com/foo?bar=quz
Should all serve index.php "silently" without changing the URL of the browser's address bar.

Answer 1

I just tested it with the following config, and I believe this does want you want:
server {
#listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
#listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
root /home/www/test;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from
server_name test.myhost.nl;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then as directory, then fall back to index.php
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri = 404;
# Fix for server variables that behave differently under nginx/php-fpm than typically expected
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
# Include the standard fastcgi_params file included with ngingx
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_index index.php;
# Override the SCRIPT_FILENAME variable set by fastcgi_params
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
# Pass to upstream PHP-FPM; This must match whater you name your upstream connection
#fastcgi_pass phpfpm;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}