Nginx remove characters from variable

Question

Basically what i want to do is put the requested URL into a variable, and then remove a character (like /) and get a new variable.

I'm trying to implement trailing slashes at the end of the URL's; This works, but i want to do it for all files:

location /examplehtmlfile/ { try_files = $uri $uri/ examplehtmlfile.html } 

Otherwise if i add a trailing slash at the end it produces a 404 error.

So what i want to do is add to to try_files directive (for the main / location) something like this:

try_files = $uri $uri/ /$uriwithoutslash.html /$uriwithoutslash.php 

Thanks

Answer 1

You need to rewrite the $uri variable if it contains a trailing slash. This is an internal rewrite so it will not affect the URL as it appears to your customers.

location ~ ./$ { rewrite ^(.+)/$ $1 last; } 

Your main location can only test for the existence of static content. PHP files need to be handled in a different location block.

location / { try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @php; } 

The existence of PHP files can be tested in the named location:

location @php { try_files $uri.php $uri/index.php =404; include fastcgi_params; fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name; fastcgi_pass ...; } 

The =404 could be replaced with a default URI, for example: /index.php

A root directive is also required, but an index directive is not consulted.

EDIT:

If you need to support URIs with the .php extension too, you can either rewrite them and add the slash or duplicate the PHP location block. Either:

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

Or:

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

Answer 2

Thanks to @RichardSmith, it has been solved!

Here is my final config: http://pastebin.com/TdAz9ad9