Question

With Apache the directive DirectoryIndex index along with DefaultType application/x-httpd-php within a particular vhost worked quite well to exclude a file extension from index files without rewriting. How can I duplicate this in Nginx? So far all I’ve been able to find is regex rewriting solutions.

Answer 1

The .conf file would look something like this:

server {
server_name example.com;

# Set the docroot directly in the server
root /var/www;

    # Allow index.php or index.html as directory index files
    index index;

    # See if a file or directory was requested first.  If not, try the request as a php file.
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/;
    }
}

the line try_files $uri should try the files without extensions on the backend