Why is NGINX is ignoring my query strings? - nginx

Question

I recently switched from APACHE to NGINX. However, somewhere along the way NGINX started ignoring my query strings. For example, I use pagination like so:
http://example.com/index.php?page=5
This simply loads example.com as if the query string wasn't there.
Here's the configuration (edited as suggested by Nelson):
/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:
user www-data;
worker_processes 4;
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
events {
worker_connections 768;
# multi_accept on;
}
http {
##
# Basic Settings
##
sendfile on;
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
types_hash_max_size 2048;
# server_tokens off;
# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
# server_name_in_redirect off;
include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
default_type application/octet-stream;
##
# Logging Settings
##
access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log;
error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;
##
# Gzip Settings
##
gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_vary on;
# gzip_proxied any;
# gzip_comp_level 6;
# gzip_buffers 16 8k;
# gzip_http_version 1.1;
# gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
##
# nginx-naxsi config
##
# Uncomment it if you installed nginx-naxsi
##
#include /etc/nginx/naxsi_core.rules;
##
# nginx-passenger config
##
# Uncomment it if you installed nginx-passenger
##
#passenger_root /usr;
#passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby;
##
# Virtual Host Configs
##
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}
#mail {
# # See sample authentication script at:
# # http://wiki.nginx.org/ImapAuthenticateWithApachePhpScript
#
# # auth_http localhost/auth.php;
# # pop3_capabilities "TOP" "USER";
# # imap_capabilities "IMAP4rev1" "UIDPLUS";
#
# server {
# listen localhost:110;
# protocol pop3;
# proxy on;
# }
#
# server {
# listen localhost:143;
# protocol imap;
# proxy on;
# }
#}
/etc/nginx/sites-available/default:
server {
root /usr/share/nginx/www/;
index index.php;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name localhost;
# Pass PHP scripts to PHP-FPM
location ~ \.php {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
client_max_body_size 8M;
}

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. I changed the location section in my nginx virtual host file as below and it works fine for me.
location / {
# try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
}

Answer 2

Just use this as Location :
location ~ \.php {
include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
}
To be more specific your following two lines are removing the query string:
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;