Route non-existant .php requests through try_files?

[Daniel15]

Thanks for your reply. Adding the try_files setting into the PHP
location block made it behave as expected

Thanks! :)

Francis Daly Wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 11:24:12PM -0400, Daniel15
> wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> > 	location / {
> 
> > 	location /assets/cache/ {
> 
> > 	location ~ \.php$ {
> 
> > However if I go to a non-existent PHP file (like
> > example.com/about.php), I get a white page that
> says "File not found."
> > There's some legacy links that have ".php" at
> the end and routing these
> > to the correct location is handled in the app
> itself. Because of my
> > try_files setting, I expected this to go through
> index.php,
> 
> No.
> 
> One request is handled by one location. The
> request for /about.php
> will be handled by the "php" regex location, which
> doesn't (currently)
> include try_files.
> 
> http://nginx.org/r/location
> 
> Untested, but probably either:
> 
> copy the try_files line into the "php" regex
> location; or
> 
> move the "php" regex location to be within the
> "location /" block
> 
> should do what you want in most cases.
> 
> ("most" because: what do you want to happen when
> the request is for
> "/assets/cache/absent.php", or for
> "/assets/cache/present.php"? The two
> options above will do different things.)
> 
> Good luck with it,
> 
> 	f
> -- 
> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org
> 
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