Removing index.php on NGINX
Development and Programming
I’m still new to NGINX and I primarily use it in my local environment. In this particular case, I have EE 6.3.4 running on NGINX using Laravel Valet. I can get to /admin.php without issue, but any frontend pages other than the home page (such as domain.test/bio) give me a 404 Not Found error. If I add index.php to the URL it works fine (e.g. domain.test/index.php/bio). Not ideal of course.
I found this forum thread from way back to try to remove index.php but it doesn’t work for me.
Here’s what the config for this particular site looks like (with domains stripped out for privacy)
Hi Angie,
Great question.
With Valet, I believe a lot of this comes down to your Valet driver and how it’s setup. (Side note, Valet driver is often found in ~/. config/valet/Drivers)
While I have a few changes to my driver locally… I believe this is method most closely related to removing the index.php. You may have to tweak the /public
public function isStaticFile($sitePath, $siteName, $uri)
{
if ($this->isActualFile($staticFilePath = $sitePath.$uri)) {
return $staticFilePath;
} elseif ($this->isActualFile($staticFilePath = $sitePath.'/public'.$uri)) {
return $staticFilePath;
}
return false;
}If that doesn’t do the trick for you, it might be helpful to post your whole Driver so we can see whats cooking a bit better!
Cheers,
-Tom Jaeger
Thanks Tom - changing that function did the trick!
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