How to rewrite if file not found using NGINX - linux

Question

I'm using NGINX On Ubuntu server. I have this vhost:
server {
listen 80;
server_name *.example.com;
root /home/nginx/vhosts/example.com/web;
location / {
index index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
}
I have to add a rule...
If the file/dir IS NOT FOUND use index.php
How could I change my server {} directive?
Thank you!

Answer 1

You can use the try_files directive:
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php
This will try to find files and directories first, and if that doesn't work, it will use index.php.
See also the front controller section on the nginx wiki.

Answer 2

Ikke is correct, use try_files like so:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
}
But your PHP fastcgi location is insecure. See this article to find out more about that.
For your setup you need to have something like this:
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
}
Note that you should set local fastcgi_param after including the fastcgi_params global config.

Answer 3

You need to fllow setting:
server {
listen 80;
server_name *.example.com;
root /home/nginx/vhosts/example.com/web;
location / {
index index.php;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
root /home/nginx/vhosts/example.com/web;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9001;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
}
}
hope help you

Answer 4

I had the same problem on RH6 an EC2 and I fixed it by hard coding the $document_root, in the param fastcgi_param.
Hope it helped.