Laravel 5 - NGINX Server Config Issue with URL Query Strings - nginx

Question

Laravel is not receiving any $_GET variables from the URL query string. The $_GET and Input::all() are empty.
Example:
example.app/ex/login.php?country=US
The "country=US" never shows up in my $_GET variable
After much research and trying many different NGINX configurations, I can now only produce results when this example is used.
Example:
example.app/index.php/ex/login.php?country=US
The $_GET variable now shows the country name value pair.
What is the proper configuration to allow query strings within the URL?
My current sites-enabled configuration for my "example.app" is...
server {
listen 80;
server_name example.app;
root /home/vagrant/Code/public;
index index.html index.htm index.php;
charset utf-8;
location / {
#try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/registration.app-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
sendfile off;
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_intercept_errors on;
fastcgi_buffer_size 16k;
fastcgi_buffers 4 16k;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}

Answer 1

This appears correct, aside from being commented out.
location / {
#try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}
The bare bones one I use in testing is:
server {
listen 80 default_server;
root /var/www/project/public;
index index.php
server_name localhost;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
include fastcgi_params;
}
}
$query_string and $args are functionally identical according to:
NGINX Docs

Answer 2

This is the sites-enabled NGINX server configuration that ended up working for me...
server {
listen 80;
server_name registration.app;
root /home/vagrant/Code/registration/public;
charset utf-8;
location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
location = /robots.txt { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
access_log off;
error_log /var/log/nginx/registration.app-error.log error;
error_page 404 /index.php;
sendfile off;
# Point index to the Laravel front controller.
index index.php;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ index.php?$query_string;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri /index.php =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
#deny all;
}
}

Answer 3

For me it worked only by changing
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string; to
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args inside location / block on ubuntu (14.04) nginx

Answer 4

My NGINX congfiguration was something like this:-
From
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?is_args$args;
}
To
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}
I just remove the is_args from try_files and working fine.