nginx php friendly URL redirection without interfering with index.php causing /index

Question

I've tried so many different configurations to enable permanent redirection of any request ending with .php to redirect to itself without .php.

The issue is, I can't get a rule to redirect requests made to any directory with /index.php to redirect to / instead of /index.

Example:

Desired behavior = /blog/index.php -> /blog/ Current behavior = /blog/index.php -> /blog/index

Is there a clean solution to have any request containing "index.php" to remove itself from the request to simply /, all while still removing .php from all other requests not including index.php?

The two problem lines I can't get to function as desired:

if ($request_uri ~* "^(.*/)index\.php$") { return 301 $1; }
if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*)\.php$) { return 301 /$1; }

Config:

# Upstream
upstream backend {
server unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
}

server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name mysite.net;

# Serving
root /var/www/html/mysite;
charset utf-8;
index index.php;

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

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

location ~* /includes/(.+)\.php$ {
deny all;
}

location ~ \.php {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_pass backend;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}

# Status
location /nginx_status {
stub_status on;
access_log off;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}

}

I'd recommend posting what you have currently/attempted so far — CollinD
– CollinD, Commented Oct 9, 2015 at 4:53

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:31:01Z

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You're likely experiencing the issue with your browser having your prior 301 Moved Permanently redirects in its cache, thus some of your newer code would not be having any effect.

Clear the cache, and try something like this:

index index.php;
if ($request_uri ~ ^/([^?]*?)(?:(?<=/)index(?:\.php)?|\.php)(\?.*)?$) { return 301 /$1$2;   }

The above line supports stripping out not only index.php, but also just index as you might have from your earlier question, as well as just .php, yet it preserves the possible query string from $args, too.

To avoid having support for stripping just index, still supporting the rest of the features as above, use the following instead:

if ($request_uri ~ ^/([^?]*?)(?:(?<=/)index)?\.php(\?.*)?$) {   return 301 /$1$2;   }

P.S. The original explanation of this trick is here: nginx redirect loop, remove index.php from url.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:31

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answered Oct 10, 2015 at 6:48

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Dogbert Over a year ago

Wow, that is perfect. Thank you. I guess I just didn't really recognize the solution you linked, because I actually saw it when searching around before asking.

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