remove .php from url with rewrite rule

Question

I want to rewrite the url in nginx so that the .php extension can be omitted.

This is what I have, but this isn\'t working for me. Anyone any idea how to do

Answer 1

@Makromat I think the 404 issue you are mentioning in the comments is that your / location is resolving to /.php without a file name, so to solve it we might add another location just to handle this special case

location / {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ /$1.php;
}
location = / {
    rewrite ^ /index.php;
}

Try this and tell me if it works

EDIT:

Ok scratch that, I have a better idea, the first case will fail if the original URL already contains the .php extension so it's better to define it as a fall back solution, try this

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri.php $uri/;
}

Try replace this with your current php block

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

Answer 2

Something like this should be what you are looking for.

location ^/(.*)$ {
  rewrite ^(.*)$ /$1.php;
}

Answer 3

Spent a while trying to get this to work properly. Both php files and other assets working:

location / {

    if (!-e $request_filename){
        rewrite ^(.*)$ /$1.php;
    }
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}