Question

I’ve been trying to use the Restler php api.

I have an api.php file at the root of my webserver:

<?php
require_once('lib/restler.php');

class Say {
    function hello($to='world') {
        return "Hello $to!";
    }
}

$r = new Restler();
$r->addAPIClass('Say');
$r->handle();
?>

I try with the simplest example GET api.php/say/hello, but nginx keep responding me with an error 404. And in the logs I see “Not a directory”.

I guess it’s a problem with my nginx conf, but can’t find any specific information about it. Any idea?

Answer 1

To solve my problem:

I put my code into /api/index.php

Then modified my nginx configuration to add:

location /api {
        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^(.*)$ /api/index.php last;
        }

        if (!-d $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^(.*)$ /api/index.php last;
        }
    }

So now if I call GET /api/say/hello, it redirects to /api/index.php/say/hello and the rewriting rules allow restler to do its magic.

I hope this will help future users of restler on nginx.