Requests ending with / (slash) are returning 404

[Igor Sysoev]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 07:26:31PM +1000, Leonardo Crespo wrote:

> I can't make sense of those 2.
> 
> >  try_files $uri.php ${uri}index.php =404;
> 
> This means: if  the uri is xxx, try to serve xxx.php. If you can't,
> try serving xxxindex.php. If you can't still, return 404.

Yes. Note, that ${uri}index.php is for "xxx/", i.e. "xxx/index.php".

> >  try_files $uri.php $uri/ =404;
> 
> This means: if the uri is xxx, try to serve xxx.php.  If you can't,
> try serving xxx/ . If you can't still, return 404.
> 
> Correct? They both work fine, what is the difference between them?

The trailing slash in "$uri/" tests that $uri, i.e., "xxx" or "xxx/"
is a directory. Further directory handling depends on directives.

If you use

    location / {
        try_file  ... $uri/  ...
        index     index.php;
    }

then nginx will test index file for request, look
http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html#simple_php_site_configuration

If you use

    location / {
        try_file  ... $uri/  ...
        fastcgi_pass      ...
        fastcgi_index     index.php;
    }

then nginx will add index.php to $uri in $fastcgi_script_name
for request with trailing slash.

> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Edho P Arief <edhoprima at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Leonardo Crespo <leo at leocrespo.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Edho, thanks.
> >>
> >> Igor mentioned i should keep this to avoid serving php as static files.
> >>
> >> location ~ \.php$
> >>        {
> >>                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
> >>                fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
> >>                fastcgi_index index.php;
> >>                include /usr/local/nginx/conf/fastcgi_params;
> >>                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME
> >> /home/public_html/boysdownunder.com.au/public/$fastcgi_script_name;
> >>        }
> >>
> >> Will it conflict with this?
> >>
> >>> location ~ \.php$ {
> >>>  return 404;
> >>> }
> >>
> >
> > as all php requests (usin are passed to @php block (or / block in
> > Igor's example), there shouldn't be any problem.
> >
> > And in my example it should be
> >
> >  try_files $uri.php ${uri}index.php =404;
> >
> > instead of
> >
> >  try_files $uri.php $uri/ =404;
> >
> >
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