nginx - Rewrite url for php files - nginx

Question

I recently moved a website which used Apache to Nginx.
How can I get an url which looks like this:
http://example.com/login
to point to http://example.com/login.php while keeping the .php out of the url?
My current configuration:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/example.com/html/;
index index.php index.html;
server_name example.com www.example.com;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
# deny accessing php files for the /assets directory
location ~ ^/assets/.*\.php$ {
deny all;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
# With php7.0-cgi alone:
# fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
# With php7.0-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
}

Answer 1

I usually use something like this and it's SEO proof. Tested by a lot of my client sites, works like a charm.
In your /etc/nginx/conf.d/domain.tld.conf file include this :
server {
index index.html index.php;
location / {
if ($request_uri ~ ^/(.*)\.html$) { return 302 /$1; }
try_files $uri $uri/ $uri.html $uri.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
if ($request_uri ~ ^/([^?]*)\.php($|\?)) { return 302 /$1?$args; }
try_files $uri =404;
# add fastcgi_pass line here, depending if you use socket or port
}
}
Source i used a while a go