Question

Can somebody shine a light?
This is the issue: I need to create a site on a server that runs Nginx. I have no experience with this server, so I have been sticking my nose in it.
I want to omit the index.php, so that

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php/welcome/index

becomes

http://www.mydomain.com/welcome/index

I then want to extract the /welcome/index so I can start and play with that in the MVC application. I have been looking around, but I get lost in the club of people that are likely doing their own configurations.

My question is if I can influence the server response as a client, like it is done with Apache through the htaccess file, or do I need to involve the provider who is hosting the server? I have requested to alter the server for this, but the support I get is not very helpful.

I was able to simulate the required server response within the nginx.conf file. This tells me that it can be done.
For those interested. Read the values on the url through $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’].

worker_processes  1;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}


http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

    sendfile        on;

    #keepalive_timeout  0;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;

        location / {
            root   html;
            index  index.php index.html index.htm;


           try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

        }

                include mime.types;


        # redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
        #
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   html;
        }


        # pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
        #
        location ~ \.php$ {
            root           html;
            fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
            include        fastcgi_params;
        }


    }

}

Answer 1

I do it like this:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?uri=$uri&$args;
}

And then you access the URI with $_GET['uri'] from your index.php. You should take a look at nginx’s try_files documentation.

Or if you want to access it via $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] do it like this:

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

Edit:

A few things just looking at your server conf:

• You’ve already included mime.types in the http block, so there is no need to include them again in the server block

• Probably a good idea to move root html; and index index.php... up to your server block

• Definitely read through these sample configurations (everything explained in the comments), very good way to start getting the hang of nginx conf

• Nginx website has some really good resources