Nginx Equivalent of Apache .htaccess - apache

Question

I've installed a PHP web application using a LEMP stack and I need to port some Apache .htaccess rewrite rules to the Nginx equivalents.
.htaccess
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* index.php?/$0 [PT,L]
I've tried these two services as recommended in other Stackoverflow answers:
http://winginx.com/en/htaccess
http://www.anilcetin.com/convert-apache-htaccess-to-nginx/
This is my server block:
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
listen 443 ssl;
listen [::]:443 ssl;
ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers "ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256:ECDH+AES128:DH+AES:ECDH+3DES:DH+3DES$
ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
ssl_dhparam /etc/nginx/ssl/dhp-2048.pem;
root /var/www/example;
index index.php index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;
server_name example.com;
# return 302 https://example.com$request_uri;
access_log /var/log/nginx/example.access.log;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf;
fastcgi_pass unix:/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock;
}
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}
The first converter generated this which I added as an addition location stanza before the last curly bracket. A syntax check nginx -t checks out but Nginx fails to restart.
location / {
if (!-e $request_filename){
rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$0 break;
}
}
The second converter generated a different rule (below) which I added inside the first location stanza (under try_files) but that also breaks the configuration as Nginx won't restart.
if (!-f $request_filename){
set $rule_0 1$rule_0;
}
if (!-d $request_filename){
set $rule_0 2$rule_0;
}
if ($rule_0 = "21"){
rewrite /.* /index.php?/$0 last;
}
What am I doing wrong? Any help to fix this is appreciated and welcome.
Update:
I still need help with this. I've not been able to get the first solution posted to work for me.

Answer 1

Change the =404 term in your try_files statement to /index.php?$uri.
For example:
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$uri;
}
Your try_files statement was only missing the final rewrite rule. Note that all URIs in nginx contain a leading /. Substituting $uri for $0 should work for you.
See this document for more.