Question

I’m trying to use rewrite alongside try_files. Ideally, I would like Nginx to try the raw URI first. If that doesn’t work, then try a controller /controllers/$1.php. Finally, just redirect to the index. This is what I have so far (I’ve sacrificed the ideal order mentioned above for succinctness):

location / {
  if (-f /controllers/$uri) {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /controllers/$1.php last;
    return 403;
  }
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}

This doesn’t seem to be working, though. Any ideas?

Answer 1

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /controllers$uri.php;

    location ~ \.php$ {
        try_files $uri /index.php;

        #
        # fastcgi/proxy_pass php configuration
        #
    }
}

• http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil
• http://wiki.nginx.org/Pitfalls