Nginx on Homestead error while visiting urls that end with php extension

First of all, why don't you simply add an nginx 301 redirection for all the files having a .php and remove it ? If you want to stick with your .php endings, try this thread http://nginxlibrary.com/resolving-no-input-file-specified-error/

Redirect all old links to new ones! It'll be better in the long run...

If you don't want to, just add .php in the route name (I did it for some links that were still included so couldn't change them yet)

Router::get('user/me.php' 'blahController@index');

Thanks for the suggestion but for the SEO guy the "redirect all" strategy it's not viable...

The solution to add .php in the route name doesn't work because Nginx doesn't forward it to Laravel main script, so I'm in the same situation! :(

What i want to achieve is something similar to this written in Apache, but I'm a total noob with Nginx:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]

I work with an SEO company and for a new site using Laravel, I wouldn't use .php. Do a 301 redirect list from old URLs to new ones. If he thinks that's bad, he's not a very good "SEO guy".

As for the routing, I used Apache for that one site and not done it with Nginx.

Here is the conversion of that Apache rewrite

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

// In the php part (would be extra stuff here)
location ~ \.php$ {
    try_files $uri /index.php =404;
}

Thank you, that was what I looking for :) Even though I don't think the 404 part is needed in my case. I will also talk to the SEO guy about the redirects, in the meantime I can keep working.

Thanks to all!

Cool :)

For your notes, if you need this for SEO

Your Nginx config

include /etc/nginx/redirects; // or whatever you want to call it

In that file, you can do this for all links that you want to redirect

rewrite /some/url.php /some/url permanent;
rewrite /some/url2.php /some/url2 permanent;
rewrite /some/url3.php /some/url3 permanent;

Well there are like hundreds of that, the site is pretty big, so I think I should find a way to do it in a more generic way :P

Well for the most part you can do ones with regex, or even everything via one rewrite (since you just want to remove .php)

This should work for removing .php from all URLs (they will be the same, just without .php)

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php;
}

location @extensionless-php {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php permanent last;
}

Thank you sir, I will sure try that when I'll need it! :)

@bashy I'm also trying to remove the .php from my URLs, and everything I've tried so far has failed.

Where would I put this in my nginx config? Every time I try it the browser downloads a file.

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ @extensionless-php;
}

location @extensionless-php {
    rewrite ^(.*)$ $1.php permanent last;
}

@timgavin You just put it where your original location block was (as long as you're actually using nginx). If it's downloading a file, that means PHP is probably not working?

@bashy Sorry about the delay, I didn't see the notification!

I'm doing this on a new Forge server, and PHP is definitely working as it's serving the files no problem. Just not when I try to remove the extension. Strange...

@timgavin Can't really tell without additional config examples. Probably not related to the part you pasted.