Laravel 5 - NGINX Server Config Issue with URL Query Strings

Question

Laravel is not receiving any $_GET variables from the URL query string. The $_GET and Input::all() are empty.

Example:

example.app/ex/

Answer 1

This appears correct, aside from being commented out.

location / {
    #try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

The bare bones one I use in testing is:

server {
    listen 80 default_server;

    root /var/www/project/public;
    index index.php
    server_name localhost;
    location / {
            try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
    }

    location ~ \.php$ {
            fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
            include fastcgi_params;
    }
}

$query_string and $args are functionally identical according to: NGINX Docs