Redirect ALL requests to single PHP file

[António P. P. Almeida]

On 18 Jan 2012 16h35 WET, nginx-forum at nginx.us wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We'd like to redirect all requests to a single PHP file.  The
> configuration below is what we have but I'm concerned that it would
> cause an "infinite" loop and possibly other problems.  We'd like to
> redirect ANY request to api.php regardless if the file exists or
> not.  Even a request to an existing static file should rewrite to
> the "api.php" file.
>
> Is this the correct way? is there a better way?

Try:

location = /api.php {
    internal; # comment this out to allow direct access to api.php.
    include fcgi;
    fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;      
}

location / {
    return 302 /api.php?uri=$request_uri;     
}

--- appa