Nginx (Off-Topic) Certain Nginx Rewrite Rule Not Working

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Greetings everyone, i am not sure if its allowed to post off-topic issues here but i have the below rewrite rule for my API which isnt working, anyone has any idea? sorry i am not experienced with nginx.

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Code (Text):

 # handle requests to the API
    location ~ /api/v2/(.+)$ {
        if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/api/v2/(.*) /api/v2/index.php?_page_url=$1 last; }
        fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

I am getting 404 on the api URL the author of the script that i am using suggested these to some users but these fixes are also not working.

Certain versions of Nginx handle rewrite rules slightly differently. To fix this, in your Nginx rewrite rules change this:

Code (Text):

#location / {
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?_page_url=$1 last;
    }
#}

To this:

Code (Text):

location / {
    if (!-e $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?_page_url=$1 last;
    }
}

After the above updates, ensure you reload Nginx so the changes are enabled.
Alternative
Alternatively replace the entire API location section with the following:

Code (Text):

rewrite ^/api/v2/(.*)$ /api/v2/index.php?_page_url=$1 last;
[CODEB]

 

Thank you, you are already doing more than anyone would, And yes would love to see some experienced users here giving their time just as you do.

 

This is the rewrite rule that i am using for my API

Code:

if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/api/v2/(.*) /api/v2/index.php?_page_url=$1 last; }

As you can see in the above example, but what i think is that its a really old one and may be it dosent works with newer nginx.

 

I think the order of the location block is important as suggested by the author of the script, i tried adding the api location block also in php-mycustom.conf at the top but its not working no matter where i put, the

location block is right but i cant diagnose why it isnt working.

 

Any help would really be appreciated, i hired a freelancer and he said the rewrite rule is perfectly correct but he couldnt diagnose why isnt it working.

 

Thank you @eva2000 for replying, just to clear my confusion here, i have replaced /usr/local/nginx/conf/php.conf in my nginx vhost with /usr/local/nginx/conf/php-mycustom.conf earlier for my changes and the contents of it are

Code:

# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
    location ~ \.php$ {
        if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/(.*) /index.php?_page_url=$1 last; }
        fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
        fastcgi_index index.php;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param MOD_X_ACCEL_REDIRECT_ENABLED on;
    

# might shave 200+ ms off PHP requests
# which don't pass on a content length header
# slightly faster page response time at the
# expense of throughput / scalability
#sendfile on;
#tcp_nopush off;
#keepalive_requests 0;

fastcgi_connect_timeout 3000s;
fastcgi_send_timeout 3000s;
fastcgi_read_timeout 3000s;
fastcgi_buffer_size 512k;
fastcgi_buffers 512 16k;
fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 1m;
fastcgi_temp_file_write_size 4m;
fastcgi_max_temp_file_size 4m;
fastcgi_intercept_errors off;
send_timeout 3000s;
proxy_connect_timeout 3000s;
proxy_send_timeout  3000s;
proxy_read_timeout  3000s;
client_max_body_size 0;

# next 3 lines when uncommented / enabled
# allow Nginx to handle uploads which then
# passes back the completed upload to PHP
#fastcgi_pass_request_body off;
#client_body_in_file_only clean;
#fastcgi_param  REQUEST_BODY_FILE  $request_body_file;

#new .04+ map method
fastcgi_param HTTPS $server_https;

# comment out PATH_TRANSLATED line if /usr/local/lib/php.ini sets following:
# cgi.fix_pathinfo=0
# as of centminmod v1.2.3-eva2000.01 default is set to cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO          $fastcgi_path_info;
fastcgi_param  PATH_TRANSLATED    $document_root$fastcgi_path_info;

fastcgi_param  QUERY_STRING       $query_string;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_METHOD     $request_method;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_TYPE       $content_type;
fastcgi_param  CONTENT_LENGTH     $content_length;

fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_NAME        $fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_URI        $request_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_URI       $document_uri;
fastcgi_param  DOCUMENT_ROOT      $document_root;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PROTOCOL    $server_protocol;
fastcgi_param  REQUEST_SCHEME     $scheme;
fastcgi_param  HTTPS              $https if_not_empty;
fastcgi_param  HTTP_PROXY         "";

fastcgi_param  GATEWAY_INTERFACE  CGI/1.1;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_SOFTWARE    nginx/$nginx_version;

fastcgi_param  REMOTE_ADDR        $remote_addr;
fastcgi_param  REMOTE_PORT        $remote_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_ADDR        $server_addr;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_PORT        $server_port;
fastcgi_param  SERVER_NAME        $server_name;

# Set php-fpm geoip variables
fastcgi_param GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE $geoip_country_code;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE3 $geoip_country_code3;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_COUNTRY_NAME $geoip_country_name;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_CITY_COUNTRY_CODE $geoip_city_country_code;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_CITY_COUNTRY_CODE3 $geoip_city_country_code3;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_CITY_COUNTRY_NAME $geoip_city_country_name;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_REGION $geoip_region;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_CITY $geoip_city;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_POSTAL_CODE $geoip_postal_code;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_CITY_CONTINENT_CODE $geoip_city_continent_code;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_LATITUDE $geoip_latitude;
fastcgi_param GEOIP_LONGITUDE $geoip_longitude;

# PHP only, required if PHP was built with --enable-force-cgi-redirect
fastcgi_param  REDIRECT_STATUS    200;

                   }

Now about what you said then modifying the if (!-e $request_filename) like in /usr/local/nginx/conf/php-api.conf to your version and change your reference in nginx vhost

Sorry but i am a bit confused here, Should i put the rewrite rule in php-mycustom.conf ? really sorry i didnt get you.

 

i think i have to put this in php-api.conf file

Code:

 # handle requests to the API
   location ~ /api/v2/(.+)$ {
      if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/api/v2/(.*) /api/v2/index.php?_page_url=$1 last; }
      fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include        fastcgi_params;
   }

and then in my nginx vhost i have to put this right

Code:

# handle requests to the API
   location ~ /api/v2/(.+)$ {
      include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php-api.conf;
   }

 

@eva2000 sorry disturbing, but i tried putting this in /usr/local/nginx/conf/php-mycustom.conf and it didnt work

Code:

 # handle requests to the API
   location ~ /api/v2/(.+)$ {
       if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/api/v2/(.*) /api/v2/index.php?_page_url=$1 last; }
       fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
       fastcgi_index  index.php;
       fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
       include        fastcgi_params;
   }

Then as you said above and from what i can understand from your above reply, i created a new file /usr/local/nginx/conf/php-api.conf and in that file i put

Code:

 # handle requests to the API
   location ~ /api/v2/(.+)$ {
      if (!-e $request_filename) { rewrite ^/api/v2/(.*) /api/v2/index.php?_page_url=$1 last; }
      fastcgi_pass   127.0.0.1:9000;
      fastcgi_index  index.php;
      fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME   $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
      include        fastcgi_params;
   }

And then in my nginx vhost file i put this

Code:

# handle requests to the API
   location ~ /api/v2/(.+)$ {
      include /usr/local/nginx/conf/php-api.conf;
   }

And it didnt work, am i doing what you are suggesting?

 

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